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| Keeping the wage slaves working for government |
Over the past few days the Minister for Social Security has made public a number of 'innovations' to the Social Security system.
GETTING YOU INTO WORK
The minister unveiled a new scheme under which local people would be given a tax free sum of £650 at the end of a period of six months of employment. Employers too would be paid £2,080 to take people on for a post which lasted at least six months and £1,000 if the post was subsequently made permanent.
The most striking feature of this offer is the insistence on a minimum period of six months which means of course that the relationship has to fall under the auspices of the widely reviled Employment Law (Jersey) 2003.
KEEPING YOU IN WORK
Then once an employee is established in a position new plans unveiled reveal that if you leave 'without a good reason' then you will not be entitled to income support (or some parts of it) for an extended period. One can only assume that a 'good reason' is something which will give rise to a hearing of the Employment Tribunal and then your former employer will be paying for the first month or so of your unemployment.
COMBINED EFFECT
So the combined effect of these is to encourage people to take positions for six months and then once they have their bonus and are bored of the work, to mess around and drive their employer to distraction by not working and costing him money.
A BETTER WAY
Repeal the Employment Law and I will take on two staff tomorrow.
Once again the government seeks a solution in greater complexity when the only viable solution is in the simplification of the system.
Fundamentally a contract is a contract and they must be entered into freely and willingly without coercion. All employment contracts have clauses for the dissolution of the employment, why should an employer suffer for exercising the terms and conditions of that contract, there is absolutely no reason why you need a reason to terminate an employment contract.
If you are employed and the company does well and you work hard then there is no danger of you losing your job.
Simple to the point blog post but mostly correct, the piece you slipped up on Darius is that a couple of reserve funds stashed by the States one has around £600 million on deposit and the just a small one the Jersey Development Company has around £5 million plus other Staes departments have a budget some with excessive money, to keep the Jollies and expense accounts lubricated, anyone for dinner drinks and a stay over at the Raddison.
ReplyDeleteSo Jersey is not skint. What the civil service is doing with their puppets on a string is making sure it stays that way, and the ridiculous wage packets keep on coming in, obviously if GST and other taxes go up which they also have to pay like the rest, this is small price to pay for the big wages and lovely pension.
All those reserves are less than one year's expenditure, Jersey does not have the capability to print its own money and it is already 'defaulting' on its obligations by such methods as manipulating the RPI statistics, not increasing worker pensions by the understated RPI, increasing the retirement age. All of which are contrary to the pretences used to encourage payments into State pension funds.
ReplyDeleteThat is fraud.
Taking my money (or attempting to in my case) in full knowledge that they are unable to meet the terms and conditions under which they are taking the money, therefore under false pretences?
That is the very definition of fraud.
The SS fund will be empty by 2030 (and that is government estimates so it is likely to empty faster than predicted) so who is going to pay my pension when it falls due in 2040? The under 50's in Jersey are basically being robbed to meet the obligations made to those who are already of pensionable age.