Thatâs my understanding yeah. My mate in aer Lingus said there was staff whose wages had been cut to less than the PUP. They wouldnât let them go though, they wanted them to resign so they wouldnât have to pay redundancy.
A lot of talk about how work is valued following the last lockdown where it was the lowest paid kept everyone else going. Be great if we actually took some action to recognise the value of work, like making sick pay mandatory for example.
Zero hours contracts shouldnât exist in the first place.
Yeah that was crazy reactionary stuff. I know an unnamed government party with pro environment leanings were seething at colleagues from unnamed treaty parties who were losing all semblance of considered and rational thinking over a single tweet.
Well if you were working in a meat factory for example and knew you would get sick pay, you might stay and home and not come to work and infect half the workforce.
The article I posted above outlined how Japan has focused on containing super spreader clusters. Some contrast to our approach. Despite all the warnings about meat plants we took no action to make them safer and when we had whole counties shut down due to the predictable outbreaks we instead focused our energy on demonising young people.
You are incredibly touchy about somebody blaming students for something, youâve mentioned that many times now in the past 24 hours, i believe somebody said that it âmay have contributedâ to something or other, nobody paid much attention bar you,
Was nothing else ever mentioned as a contributing factor? Itâs time for you to move on from this
I heard something this morning to the effect of undertakers being asked not to post funeral details online so as to keep people away from guards of honour for funerals.
Is that really what we are about as a society, virus or no virus?
Yep and there will be people who will be applauding this and saying pity it didnât happen sooner. These are the same people who want to shut up everything and we all stay indoors till the virus is gone.
