.Not at the taxpayer's expense they're not. These people are effectively on strike but still on full pay. They appear to be getting away with holding the country to ransom.
Am I entitled to go on tax strike?
If the public sector aren't going to provide the service I'm paying them to provide, then does it not follow that I should withhold tax?
So,bear with me on this, public servants are entitled to get paid when not performing their duties provided they have provided their union with a legal mandate to do so?
If there is a mass protest, will everyone get arrested then?
That would be interesting.
After all, what other way do the private, non-unionised workers have to protest?
In certain parts of the public service, almost certainly in the civil service, job descriptions are the exception rather than the rule. I wouldn't know what the split is in the passport office concerned.,,, If so, surely dealing with customers and answering phones is part of your daily job description?
As a civil servant I don't have a job description, or terms and conditions of employment. Apparently I'm employed 'at the pleasure of the Finance Minister.' That is why it was not a breach of the payment of wages act when my pay was cut without my consent.I thought they were going on a 'work to rule' strike?
If so, surely dealing with customers and answering phones is part of your daily job description?
As a civil servant I don't have a job description, or terms and conditions of employment. Apparently I'm employed 'at the pleasure of the Finance Minister.' That is why it was not a breach of the payment of wages act when my pay was cut without my consent.
The only ones hurting are the kids that didnt get to go to Disneyland because someone wouldnt do their job and give them a passport. Like I said fair play to the general public who made a stand against this stupid industrial action.
This is nonsense, of course. The 'private sector' does not have a monopololy of Govt funding. It is not just the private sector that pays taxes or pays for public services.When I see industrial action like this I get angry for two reasons, first is that in effect what they are looking for is yet more private sector money. They want me to give them more of my money. This money isn't going to come from anywhere else, because the government is too busy pouring that into the failed banks.
In certain parts of the public service, almost certainly in the civil service, job descriptions are the exception rather than the rule. I wouldn't know what the split is in the passport office concerned.
Fundamentally it is just the private sector that pays taxes and pays for public services;The public sector could not exist without private sector funding. The private sector enables the public sector employee to pay taxes by funding their job and these taxes are just a partial rebate on the cost of providing a public sector job.
Face it, regardless of how essential the service being provided is, public sector employees are the antithesis of wealth creation: a financial drain.
Everybody with income or captial gains (above threshold levels) and everybody who spends money pays taxes, regardless of whether they are public or private sector employees. As stated above, private sector employees do not have a monopoly on paying taxes.The private sector enables the public sector employee to pay taxes by funding their job
No-one gets a 'partial rebate'. Public servants get paid a wage or salary for doing their job.these taxes are just a partial rebate on the cost of providing a public sector job.
Public services are about serving the public. The teacher who is teaching our children this morning is not a 'financial drain'. He or she is providing a service for a salary. The Garda who is giving evidence in court this morning is not a 'financial drain'. The local authority official who is processing motor tax payments or processing housing applications is not a 'financial drain'.Face it, regardless of how essential the service being provided is, public sector employees are the antithesis of wealth creation: a financial drain.