Constructive dismissal

getmore4less

If really desperate for some cash there is the accrued holiday that can be paid if management are willing to cooperate on that.

sangie595

motorguy wrote: »

And therein lies the problem with the NHS....

Hardly.

In a clinical setting you are going to have higher sickness rates anyway - you are dealing with constant streams of sick people "happy" to pass on every bug they have. You are talking about hard work and long hours. And low pay. Dealing with diminishing resources and not enough staff to do the job. And not enough people qualifying to do the job, because nursing is such a badly paid and thankless hard job that fewer and fewer people want to do it. So it is hardly surprising that people end up sick.

What is wrong with our NHS is that highly dedicated and qualified staff are so inadequately recompensed for the job that they do. What is wrong with the NHS is that treatment depends more and more upon personal wealth. What is wrong with the NHS is that we have governments willing to invest in weapons of mass destruction (after all, exactly what deterrent is a nuclear weapon given that the first time one is launched the ensuing exchange will wipe out most life on earth?) rather than healing people.

It is not nurse's sickness rates that is wrong with the NHS.

sangie595

getmore4less wrote: »

If really desperate for some cash there is the accrued holiday that can be paid if management are willing to cooperate on that.

And PIP? The OP should qualify.

ohreally

motorguy wrote: »

And therein lies the problem with the NHS....

Try working in a clinical environment closed to the public due to an outbreak, see how you manage.

Even the NHS instruct individuals...

Try to avoid going to your GP, as norovirus can spread to others very easily

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Norovirus/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Put yourself in the place of staff working in such conditions, sickness absence will occur.

motorguy

ohreally wrote: »

Try working in a clinical environment closed to the public due to an outbreak, see how you manage.

Even the NHS instruct individuals...



http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Norovirus/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Put yourself in the place of staff working in such conditions, sickness absence will occur.

On the contrary, i think the O/P encapsulates a fair few of the problems with the Public Sector full stop -

Long term sickness issues...
Sense of entitlement of staff...
Heavy union involvment...

:eek:

motorguy

sangie595 wrote: »

Hardly.

In a clinical setting you are going to have higher sickness rates anyway - you are dealing with constant streams of sick people "happy" to pass on every bug they have. You are talking about hard work and long hours. And low pay. Dealing with diminishing resources and not enough staff to do the job. And not enough people qualifying to do the job, because nursing is such a badly paid and thankless hard job that fewer and fewer people want to do it. So it is hardly surprising that people end up sick.

What is wrong with our NHS is that highly dedicated and qualified staff are so inadequately recompensed for the job that they do. What is wrong with the NHS is that treatment depends more and more upon personal wealth. What is wrong with the NHS is that we have governments willing to invest in weapons of mass destruction (after all, exactly what deterrent is a nuclear weapon given that the first time one is launched the ensuing exchange will wipe out most life on earth?) rather than healing people.

It is not nurse's sickness rates that is wrong with the NHS.

I was probably unfair there - i should have said "and therein lies some of the problems of the NHS".