Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

Love this whole ‘furloughed workers should go and help bring in the harvest’ argument. Looked this morning and the closest farms looking to take on staff are 45 minutes away and paying minimum wage. Which would be treated as a second income. Think I’ll pass.

By the way DWP would stop your benefits for turning down this picking job, you would be expected to travel up to 2 hrs for minimum wage.

However, have been informed that some people are being asked to sign a change of job contract when they enter furlough, basically, no other work.

Many of these picking jobs require you to live on site, it helps these farms, manage their rent and wage.

Not that I blame you...

Exactly
It will hopefully force us to reexamine the way we run care homes

Means less money in pockets, no chance...

 

[Brisan123]

These “Hammer and Dance” posts are long but have found them informative.

Hammer and Dance
Dance Part 1
Dance part 2

including this “ according to this model, just 60% of people wearing masks that are 60% effective could, by itself, stop the epidemic.”

which is why our job is giving us all 2 face masks per shift and making wearing them compulsory
They will become the norm when outdoors from now now on and not just on Chinese tourists buying Gucci handbags

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Love this whole ‘furloughed workers should go and help bring in the harvest’ argument. Looked this morning and the closest farms looking to take on staff are 45 minutes away and paying minimum wage. Which would be treated as a second income. Think I’ll pass.

Not aimed at you specifically, but the general sneering attitude towards farm work perhaps explains why labour tends to be imported. It seems to be work that's viewed as beneath many Brits.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Yea, my brother in law is working from home his hours are 9-5:30, he says the boss rings him 4 or 5 times a day with a random request, to make sure he's at his computer, at 3 minutes past 9 or 25 past 5 in the evening and then a few times during the day.

My local authority has been encouraging home working for a while... As they downsized office space and can't fit everyone in now. However, very easy to check if you are actually doing work, by various ways... And my internet at home is so much better than works, I'm logged on in secs, at work would take 15 mins...

 

[zzr45]

Not aimed at you specifically, but the general sneering attitude towards farm work perhaps explains why labour tends to be imported. It seems to be work that's viewed as beneath many Brits.

Eh, if it was a farm down the road (live in a dairy and lambing region so there’s not actually that much in terms of labour needed - have friends who have 500 head herds they manage alone) and the pay at the end of the week was actually worth considering, I’d do it.

Farms have made these jobs as unattractive to UK workers as possible for years, they are now reaping what they’ve sown in that regard.

 

[Billy Dean]

HOLY MOLY

Surprised to see the red banner hasn't descended this morning.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Eh, if it was a farm down the road (live in a dairy and lambing region so there’s not actually that much in terms of labour needed - have friends who have 500 head herds they manage alone) and the pay at the end of the week was actually worth considering, I’d do it.

Farms have made these jobs as unattractive to UK workers as possible for years, they are now reaping what they’ve sown in that regard.

Well yes, farms could position themselves in the city centre to make it easy for people lol

 

[Paris]

 

[orchard]

Eh, if it was a farm down the road (live in a dairy and lambing region so there’s not actually that much in terms of labour needed - have friends who have 500 head herds they manage alone) and the pay at the end of the week was actually worth considering, I’d do it.

Farms have made these jobs as unattractive to UK workers as possible for years, they are now reaping what they’ve sown in that regard.

In principle, I've nothing against drafting furloughed workers into helping combat the Corona menace, but using them to help maintain a failing intensive agricultural business requires a lot more justification imo.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Not aimed at you specifically, but the general sneering attitude towards farm work perhaps explains why labour tends to be imported. It seems to be work that's viewed as beneath many Brits.

It's the hardest minimum wage job there is just about, a hell of a lot of graft for little pay, increase the wages and there would be more interest.

 

[zzr45]

Well yes, farms could position themselves in the city centre to make it easy for people lol

Yes, the absolute shower!

There’s always been slightly dubious practices though, from the use of piece rate to circumvent the minimum wage, over charging for accommodation and some farms exclusively hiring overseas for years. They are a bit like Branson in regards to running out with the begging bowl when they’ve been taking the piss for a good while.

From last year, the number of UK workers is actually staggering, does seem that Eastern Europeans aren't all that interested anymore either. https://www.ft.com/content/5127a0de-c4ee-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[Brisan123]

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Well done 'farangs'!

To be fair I made more sense of that than I do some of @Joey66 posts

 

[tsubaki]

dishonest is the Express’ middle name

 

[Billy Dean]

Matt Hancock is on a flight to Berlin as we speak. Expect all vending machines to be empty by the end of the day.