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Old 24-11-2011, 09:53   #325
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Re: Did Graham Jones do the right thing?

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Originally Posted by Wrighty View Post
I have received another e-mail from Graham Jones regarding the EU.....

The UK’s membership of the EU has brought a great many benefits to UK citizens, most notably in the area of workers’ rights. The TUPE, the Working Time Directive, guarantees of fair pay, paid holidays and maternity and paternity leave are all guaranteed by European law. Indeed, the EU protects us as consumers as well as workers; the reduction in the cost of mobile phone calls to other European countries was the result of decisions made in Europe......

Yours sincerely
Graham Jones
TUPE is almost a waste of time because it is to easy to get around.

The working time directive is another joke because my contact of employment also opts me out of the working time directive - the only dit you cant opt out of is the night working part.

As for guarantees of fair pay I have a little story - A local ish firm to here had its own employed staff running some equipment in one part of its plant and a contract labour firm running the packaged part of the plant. The employed staff were on better term, conditions and pay than the contract staff. Due to the equal pay thing the contract staff were now supposed to be on the same as the employed staff. What actually happened was the employed staff had 30% slashed off their wages so they matched the contract staff.

Its ok saying they should all be paid the same but some companies just can not afford what these regulations impose so they have to either cut wages or cut staff and use cheaper contract labour. The only people than win is the contact labour companies not the employees or employer.
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