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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Joe_Bloggs wrote: »
    I would not eat any cabbage even if I would receive a fee for doing so. So Clapton your room 101 cabbage economic policy is not a vote winner.
    J_B.


    now I happened to like cabbage but the price doesn't affect the quantity I eat.
    In any event cheap cabbage may be a electoral winner in the Polish community.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    now I happened to like cabbage but the price doesn't affect the quantity I eat.
    In any event cheap cabbage may be a electoral winner in the Polish community.

    Think it does.

    If cabbages cost £200.00 each, would you still eat as much as if they were £1.00 each?
  • Joe_Bloggs
    Joe_Bloggs Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    edited 25 May 2012 at 11:12AM
    @Clapton
    Have you considered Sauerkraut. Some people will do anything to make cabbage taste better.
    J_B.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    ILW wrote: »
    Think it does.

    If cabbages cost £200.00 each, would you still eat as much as if they were £1.00 each?


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  • adouglasmhor
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    Joe_Bloggs wrote: »
    @Clapton
    Have you considered Sauerkraut. Some people will do anything to make cabbage taste better.
    J_B.

    Central European sauerkraut is different from Western European and American sauerkraut (which has vinegar added) though.
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  • Kennyboy66
    Kennyboy66 Posts: 939 Forumite
    hallmark wrote: »
    I'm neither a Tory voter nor foaming at the mouth, however are you seriously saying you don't see the correlation between reduction on the laws controlling employers and those same employers hiring more people? There's nothing complicated about it. Every law that's introduced increases the cost of employing people & makes it make less business sense to do so. We're talking simple business facts here, not moral rights & wrongs.

    No - I just would like someone to explain how the particular proposal around unfair dismissal and TUPE would increase employment.

    There was plenty of other things in the report that seems sensible and likely to be adopted.

    It's just that bar discrimination (and the report excluded any changes to discrimination related dismissal), you can dismiss any employee in the first 12 months without any comebacks.

    In addition, redundancy if done properly is very cheap in the UK (based on statuatory provision).

    I can think of many reasons not to recruit at the moment (skills, aggregate demand, some employment legislation) but really can't see how unfair dismissal (which after all is just an extension of contract law) and TUPE is a barrier to an employer recruiting.

    Just seems like a red herring to me - unless you can explain otherwise.
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  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    Interesting item on News 24 (again and again and again) about how Google treats its employees, to maximise their productivity. It's about as far from British Tory greengrocer mentality as it's possible to get. Hasn't done Google any harm though.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Interesting item on News 24 (again and again and again) about how Google treats its employees, to maximise their productivity. It's about as far from British Tory greengrocer mentality as it's possible to get. Hasn't done Google any harm though.

    Good luck to Google, it works for them. That is no reason to force other businesses to follow the same model though.
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Good luck to Google, it works for them. That is no reason to force other businesses to follow the same model though.
    Hadn't realised it was a freedom issue. Wouldn't want to trample on the right of the British boss to give expression to the view that all workers are pond scum.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Interesting item on News 24 (again and again and again) about how Google treats its employees, to maximise their productivity. It's about as far from British Tory greengrocer mentality as it's possible to get. Hasn't done Google any harm though.


    Do you have a link available?
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