Council Jobs to Go -10% Staff Saving Needed

treliac

macaque wrote: »

You speak as if the private sector has no role in nursing, teaching or looking after the elderly.

When making profits comes into the frame, compassion, integrity and genuine concern for the powerless and dependent all too often go out of the window. I've seen it too many times.

tomstickland

olly300 wrote: »

If your really want to cut public sector jobs then you need to cut jobs in the NHS - the biggest employer in Europe after all we need less doctors, nurses, porters, pharmacists, radiologists .............

They'll all productive employees. It's the endles middle management, stats gathering part that needs to be trimmed.

John_Brown_4

PasturesNew wrote: »

A local authority says it needs to reduce staffing costs by 10%

About time they got rid of these good-for-nothing rates leeches.

beingjdc

macaque wrote: »

Looking at your tortured explanations, I'm inclined to suspect that you are a shop steward in the public sector.

Not at all, I'm not even a member of the right union, and I've agreed on here before that the public sector pension policy is unsustainable and needs to be reviewed, so I don't think I'd be a very good shop steward.

For what it's worth, there are regular sickness absences at my great uncle's private sector care home, and I assume caused by the same reasons as in the public sector - a reluctance to come in if the illness might be infectious, and (to a lesser extent), pulled muscles caused by moving immobile elderly people around.

There's nothing tortuous about that, nor about the fact that a lot of teachers go on long-term sick leave with stress (as I think I would within half an hour if left alone with thirty of the younger generation's finest).

darich

I've posted a few times on this thread but it's quite clear that any defence of LA workers is futile.

Several postershave it in their head that all councils are a mass of beaurocracy, doing nothing all day except creating jobs and drinking tea. Funnily enough, these posters don't seem to work for LA.
I'm sure many private sector workers would refuse to work for nothing (and rightly so) but in LA there are numerous staff in my building alone who lose accrued flex time every month - sometimes as much as a week in every four. Yes that's right - every four weeks they've actually worked five and the additional week is removed from their flexi balance. So the LA gets a week's work from them for nothing. Most don't lose that much but many lose several hours.

This thread is probably pointless because those who work in LA will never convince those who don't that it's anything but na easy ride, and those who don't work in LA will never be convinced it's not easy.

There are too many posters who have a bad experience on one occasion and then tar every council and employee as lazy good-for-nothing leeches.

Well if it wasn't for all those leeches there would be no schools, roads, bins emptied, fewer care homes, and countless other services that go unnoticed because they aren't high profile.

macaque_2

Here's another lot pillaging the public purse.



http://ferretfancier.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-labours-nhs-legacy.html

poker_face

darich wrote: »

I've posted a few times on this thread but it's quite clear that any defence of LA workers is futile.

Several postershave it in their head that all councils are a mass of beaurocracy, doing nothing all day except creating jobs and drinking tea. Funnily enough, these posters don't seem to work for LA.
I'm sure many private sector workers would refuse to work for nothing (and rightly so) but in LA there are numerous staff in my building alone who lose accrued flex time every month - sometimes as much as a week in every four. Yes that's right - every four weeks they've actually worked five and the additional week is removed from their flexi balance. So the LA gets a week's work from them for nothing. Most don't lose that much but many lose several hours.

This thread is probably pointless because those who work in LA will never convince those who don't that it's anything but na easy ride, and those who don't work in LA will never be convinced it's not easy.

There are too many posters who have a bad experience on one occasion and then tar every council and employee as lazy good-for-nothing leeches.

Well if it wasn't for all those leeches there would be no schools, roads, bins emptied, fewer care homes, and countless other services that go unnoticed because they aren't high profile.

True. Just because the tax payer pays the wages doesn't mean we all get to dictate them. Im sure there are some of them which have pointless jobs, or are not worth the money they are payed, but the majority of these people are doing important work that is keeping this country going.
Bearly mind :rotfl: