Not sure the animal kingdom is really where we should be looking to for inspiration...
Maybe elephants? Unless they're in musth, they seem to tolerate and look after each each other pretty well?
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Not sure the animal kingdom is really where we should be looking to for inspiration...
Maybe elephants? Unless they're in musth, they seem to tolerate and look after each each other pretty well?
More allegations today about her.
She seems to be a thoroughly nasty piece of work and a nightmare to work with.
You may well be right and he wins the constructive dismissal case, but for a high powered career CS like Putnam that would I suspect be scant reward, and given the other 'briefings' about his former competence it may well not be a 'dead cert'.
Also the former allegation against Patel may be crucial to Putnam's outcome, if it can be established Patel's modus operandi is 'to bully' staff on a regular basis; but if not then the theory 'X' manager approach could be justified given the circumstances the Home Office is in at present, especially with a new immigration system to 'launch' and that Putnam was put under justified pressure by Patel and he simply failed to step up to the mark!
Boris's whole approach, or should we say Dominic's approach to getting what he wants from the CS, especially in matters Brexit, seems to be to take no prisoners . How long such a campaign can last is another question, but if it lasts long enough to get the Government over the line with the EU then the Government will deem it worthwhile, even if a few Senior CS have to get thrown under a bus, in the process!
Bullying is not the same as pressure or high expectations. Bullying is about fear and intimidation and it stops people doing their jobs properly. If Patel is a bully, I hope it's the end of her. (I hope it's the end of her anyway as she's an idiot).
Indeed it is not, but when someone deemed/declared by virtue of their position of being capable of fulfilling a role continues to fail to meet the expectations held of them by others affected by the individuals competence in that role, then any pressure and/or high expectations applied can be perceived by the individual as bullying. Conversely when a manager repeatedly applies pressure and continues to hold or demand high expectations of someone who is clearly unable to fulfil that role, then such pressurising of them does become a 'bullying act'.
This is why appraisal systems that are used and moderated regularly are so important and especially where the pressures of work are so high that the dangers of intimidation, where this can occur, be it managing upward as well as managing downward, is also high. You might well assume that in the Civil Service Appraisals are of paramount importance and are reviewed regularly.
However it would seem that this may not be the situation in this case.
Yeah I get that. Like I said, I've seen this stuff up close. I'm not going to given much credence to the govt leaks over this.
That's why there are tribunals... but appears as if Patel might have form. If so, she's a goner.
Very well said.
Third allegation made against Patel - from her time in the department for International Development.
Looking like this will happen within a couple of weeks of each other.
Did you watch all of the clip ?
''I believe to this day, that a member of the Royal Family, as the Royal Family was then, was more valid than mine''
Also it's sort of awful that someone should have to sale something they hold so close in order to afford their own funeral.
Weird but hey.. People are allowed to be weird
The brexit we didn't want you to vote for.
Just to clarify, we all have the opportunity to work more hours already. The torys want the opportunity to force us to. Cheers.
Just to clarify, we all have the opportunity to work more hours already. The torys want the opportunity to force us to. Cheers.
Not always. We had night workers who wanted to work more than 56 hours per week but weren't allowed because of legislative restrictions.
Thank god we have a niche example to justify this shit show.
Boris Johnson vs. Britain’s Deep State
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...state/ar-BB10IRRI?li=BBoPU0R&ocid=mailsignout
Sound familiar?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...state/ar-BB10IRRI?li=BBoPU0R&ocid=mailsignout
Sound familiar?
I don't see allowing people to work more hours if they choose to as being contentious. I don't see anyone arguing that people should be forced to work longer hours against their will.
You really don't think the torys plan to get rid of the working time directive won't put people at risk of being forced to work longer hours as standard?
I think if someone tries to get someone else to work more than their contractual commitment then they will have a breach of contract / constructive dismissal case on their hands. If they force them in a physical sense then they'll have even greater problems.
Obviously if people are successful applicants to a job that's strictly 60 hour per week and decide that it isn't for them they can resign.
You only have to look at the hours they were forcing on junior doctors a few years ago (still do to some degree).
Yes, at the heart of matters is the resistance to change in the CS, and as we've heard from the past even those who will eventually benefit from change will still initially reject it!
Accusations about Priti Patel's bullying (or not) is a side show, the danger is that Government is taking on an all out war on certain CS 'mandarins' and that in itself could disrupt Brexit reforms. Politically Boris cannot afford delays and deviations and he and many of his ministers, in fact the whole cabinet, are likely to adopt a take no prisoner approach in rooting out what they may see as 'fifth-column' remainers in the CS.
Patel seems to be the Governments 'arse-kicker in chief' Minister, piloted in her efforts perhaps by Dominic Cummings and his highly prized intel.
Depends what the job is. The 56 hours you mentioned suggests you're talking about drivers and tbh other road users might well argue that abolishing that rule is contentious when it will be them that gets shunted in the back by a 20 tonne articulated lorry driven by a guy who can barely stay awake.
The S*n on YouTube have a video that's called "Army on standby as Boris declares war on coronavirus with battle plan to kill off deadly bug".
That's Boris, the utter coward who probably thinks paternity leave means abandoning your child, and is apparently some incredible military strategist now. I imagine the battle plan involves hiding in a fridge.
That's Boris, the utter coward who probably thinks paternity leave means abandoning your child, and is apparently some incredible military strategist now. I imagine the battle plan involves hiding in a fridge.
I miss the old Doctor Who episodes.
I'm not. If I were my insurance premiums would be disincentive enough.
he looks like a doctor stuck between regenerations. 'Doctor Where' would be more appropriate for him.
"Right - gimme all your hand sanitiser."
The idea that the pressures on people to work longer hours boil down to people either being "forced" or not is laughably naive.
The BBC have come down hard on Laura Kuenssberg for her peddling of Tory propaganda.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/tweet-by-laura-kuenssberg-9-december-2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/tweet-by-laura-kuenssberg-9-december-2019
Literally had a BBC colleague at the scene saying it never happened. On air. On BBC Radio.Found no evidence that she had failed to check the story before publication?
It's a statement the household name reporters would be pissing themselves laughing at and quote tweeting if the Canary made it.
Found no evidence that she had failed to check the story before publication?
She says it was double sourced - that's a sufficient check usually - and it looks like the BBC have accepted that explanation.
Good point. The BBC reporter actually on the scene, who said it didn't happen, only had the one source after all.
I'm more in the feckup camp than in the 'giant tory conspiracy one' on this. But you go ahead and enjoy yourself.
You can tell it just was a feck up by Panorama's expose on the government sources (there must have been two after all) who used the two highest profile TV journalists in the country to peddle demonstrable lies during an election campaign. It must be on next week.
do you think that 19th century european working hours were voluntary on the part of workers?
I think the idea that the state knows better and that forcing people to accept their view as law is oppressive.
If the state feels that working those hours is inhumane, they should advocate for fewer hours. If people listen to them and stop working for employers who demand you work 60 hours then that's democracy in action. Employers who only require 40 hours will become more successful as they will attract better and more productive staff whilst employers who demand 60 hours will have fatigued staff who're less productive. The former will flourish and the latter will disappear.
If however you have a large cohort of people who actively and productivity want to work a 60 hour night shift and with mutual agreement you can run a successful business then everyone is happy.
The alternative is we force people to do something they don't want to do under the guise of "big brother knows best". Big Brother knows shit. Especially as the state never tells bankers they can't work 80 hour weeks, it's always the poor they need to protect from their own perceived stupidity.
that doesn't answer my question.
to quote the Indian Supreme Court from 1982, speaking on the application of forced labour laws to a minimum wage case -
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/496663/