Hands off my pension

Oldernotwiser

ILW wrote: »

Because the ability to do the job in hand should be what an applicant is chosen for.

Knowledge of these issues would be necessary to do your job properly.

Oldernotwiser

PasturesNew wrote: »

Knowing what it means for starters.
Knowing how one would demonstrate it.
And can one demonstrate it if you're not already an insider?

It's a requirement for many private sector jobs as well.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

This is why I went on strike.

Excellent.

Now could you please all go on strike again...... Forever.

Because nobody noticed you were gone, the traffic was great, and clearly your job isn't that important as the country did not in fact grind to a halt.

PasturesNew

But still nobody's explained "demonstrate your commitment to diversity and equality" what it is/how you'd do that.

So nobody knows. Is there a mumbo jumbo stock answer, that also has no meaning?

Oldernotwiser

PasturesNew wrote: »

But still nobody's explained "demonstrate your commitment to diversity and equality" what it is/how you'd do that.

So nobody knows. Is there a mumbo jumbo stock answer, that also has no meaning?

If I were going for a job I would spend some time writing an answer appropriate to the job. As it's Saturday, this is a forum and the answers are pretty obvious, I'm not going to waste my time - sorry.

I'm sure that the private employers you've worked for have had an equal ops policy that you've had to conform to; the public sector is much the same but takes it all a bit more seriously.

Running_Horse

There should be just one kind of pension, available to everyone regardless of whether they work in the public or private sector, with benefits the country can genuinely afford at the time.

The trouble is Gordon Brown taxed my private pension out of existence, while pouring the proceeds (plus borrowed money) into a temporary splurge in public spending. That basic unfairness has to be remedied sooner or later, or expect an even bigger backlash against public sector benefits.

abaxas

Running_Horse wrote: »

There should be just one kind of pension, available to everyone regardless of whether they work in the public or private sector, with benefits the country can genuinely afford at the time.

The trouble is Gordon Brown taxed my private pension out of existence, while pouring the proceeds (plus borrowed money) into a temporary splurge in public spending. That basic unfairness has to be remedied sooner or later, or expect an even bigger backlash against public sector benefits.

Maybe the tax payers will go on strike.

atomicsheep

abaxas wrote: »

Maybe the tax payers will go on strike.

they already do.....they are called benefit scroungers

atomicsheep

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Excellent.

Now could you please all go on strike again...... Forever.

Because nobody noticed you were gone, the traffic was great, and clearly your job isn't that important as the country did not in fact grind to a halt.

The country was never meant to grind to a halt, not the point of the strike.
The strike to was to cause a big impact on the business itself. The strike did just that and was a huge success.
I turned up for work on strike day and can tell you that out of 400 staff in my office only 40 attended.
The impact was massive, many offices closed or couldn't operate fully.

Well done on the strike people!

By the way, those moaning they have nothing to strike about, think of this....

They want the staff to pay more pension, work longer for it and get less out the other end, then go another 2 years with no pay rise when inflation has gone to about 5%.

If your mortgage company turned round to you one day and said we have decided to increase the term of the mortgage by another 8 years, but you have to give use more money for the priviledge and we will devalue your home for you at the end, i'm sure you'd have something to say.

PasturesNew

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

If I were going for a job I would spend some time writing an answer appropriate to the job. As it's Saturday, this is a forum and the answers are pretty obvious, I'm not going to waste my time - sorry.

I'm sure that the private employers you've worked for have had an equal ops policy that you've had to conform to; the public sector is much the same but takes it all a bit more seriously.

So you don't know either.

No, the private employers I've worked for didn't have policies.