My favorite so far.
An old boss of mine in HR got a letter from the unions asking for disturbance money due to the fact that staff were being ask to use a different door.
She counted the number of steps from the middle of the car park and found it took her 5 less steps to get into the building. She wrote back to the union offical explaining and nheard no more about it.
Ill start;
The job I was in was held-up by guys with shotguns.
They held up the guy who went to collect the cash for the wages.It was horrific for all involved.
The company suggested that the staff be paid directly into their bank account,or by cheque..perfectly reasonable..you would think..
The union got involved and claimed that a lot of the staff didnt have bank accounts...the unions won .
The union also wanted time off for staff to cash the cheque..the unions won ..
The union then got the staff a once off payment for the disruption!
The company has closed down!!
GO FIGURE
I have a friend who used to work in Guinness who told me that she got in trouble for changing a clock (in her own office) from winter time to summer time, because it was somebody else's job.
It might have been a wind-up.
True story -NCT staff were in Labour Court last week - claiming payment for starting work 4 minutes early each day. Court recommended they recieve additional 4 days holiday this year to compensate.
Is that a joke?
Nct claiming for extra 4 mins pay per day.you are joking right?
And they were given four days extra holidays for it
True story - NCT staff were in Labour Court last week - claiming payment for starting work 4 minutes early each day. Court recommended they recieve additional 4 days holiday this year to compensate.
Given that I heard the identical story about a civil service office, it may well be one of those urban myths.I have a friend who used to work in Guinness who told me that she got in trouble for changing a clock (in her own office) from winter time to summer time, because it was somebody else's job.
It might have been a wind-up.
Have you ever tried cleaning spilt yogurt or left over over-ripe banana from an office bin with no liner?The IBOA put in a proposal for bin liners for the office bins.
Have you ever tried cleaning spilt yogurt or left over over-ripe banana from an office bin with no liner?
Given that I heard the identical story about a civil service office, it may well be one of those urban myths.
Have you ever tried cleaning spilt yogurt or left over over-ripe banana from an office bin with no liner?
Should we start a thread about dumb things that managers/owners/shareholders have done to employees? Could the AAM servers support the load?
Yes , let me start. Of course , some people here , I suspect some of them are employers would have us believe that unions are the devil incarnate!!
Right , how would you feel if as a 19 year old with no job security and dependent on the employer for future references, you were expressly forbidden to use latex gloves and told to use your bare hands instead to pick up bloody dressings and swabs from an operating floor?
Well , it happened to me and when I say that if I had refused , I would suffer down the line, I tell the truth. Apart from the fact that then I wouldn't have had the courage to refuse.
How would you feel if out of your close circle of seven friends , five of them needed back surgery before they were 32 because they were used as mules basically and then they wonder where a lot of the nurses are gone. They're at home with back pain!!!
So, thank God for Health and Safety legislation and if you are so foolish as to think that a lot of employment legislation that protects workers is unnecessary ,well to be honest I am sorry for you.Does anyone here remember the unions fighting so that married women would be fairly taxed?Well , I do. Forty years ago , you could be fired on marriage, fired if pregnant. You had very poor health and safety legislation and little compensation for injury or disability caused by your work conditions.
And no , I absolutely don't agree with rampant trade unionism. In fact I detest fanatics of all types. However, I am sick of this endless bashing of trade unions and have come to the conclusion that some of it comes from genuine ignorance and some comes from people who find that unions and the employee protection afforded employees now, is an unwelcome situation in their particular workplace.
Given that I heard the identical story about a civil service office, it may well be one of those urban myths.
Many years ago I worked in a steel fabrication plant, where there were some pretty lethal machnes used for pressing steel plates into various shapes. The gaurds were never on the machines except when an insurance rep would call around for a look. The myself and another employee were told to put them on. When the rep left, we would have to take them off again.
It was this and other types of employer abuse that lead to a Union being formed, which eventually lead to some better working conditions and pay increasesUnions have a part to play in todays world just as much as in the past. The balance of power may have shifted too far to the Unions but without unions, most employers would be far more liberal in abusing employees.in return for delivered productivity increases.
For the record I am a member of Siptu. I will vote against the proposed strike and will not support it, even if I get kicked out the union. I am in favour of the pension levy even though it will cost me thousands of euro in take home pay. However, I will not be tolerant of any more cuts to my pay in the short term unless it is coupled with some other measures to make everyone take the pain for the country to recover.
You need someone to help with your sums, too.True story - NCT staff were in Labour Court last week - claiming payment for starting work 4 minutes early each day. Court recommended they recieve additional 4 days holiday this year to compensate.
Based on this claim - given I work at least 20 hours extra each week, then
1 min = 1 extra days holiday
60 min = 60 days extra holiday
20(hours) X 60(min) = 1200 min = 1200 days extra holiday
1200/5(day working week) = 240 weeks off.
Yippee!! All I need to do, is to join a union and put a claim in.................
For the record I am a member of Siptu. I will vote against the proposed strike and will not support it, even if I get kicked out the union. I am in favour of the pension levy even though it will cost me thousands of euro in take home pay. However, I will not be tolerant of any more cuts to my pay in the short term unless it is coupled with some other measures to make everyone take the pain for the country to recover.
This sort of thing typifies what’s wrong with many large organisations (both public and private); why the hell would putting bin liners in office bins be an issue that requires a decision at a high level.The IBOA put in a proposal for bin liners for the office bins.