The following Bulletin 12 was sent to members late yesterday and can be found on the website:-
Napo maintains pressure on CRC pay
Over the last few months Napo negotiators have achieved some important breakthroughs in our longstanding campaign to seek pay parity for our members employed in the Community Rehabilitation Companies. This has been a difficult task to say the least, and the levels of engagement between CRC employers and the unions have seen a mixture of positive outcomes alongside some very disappointing responses.
Below is a summary outlining what has been achieved so far:
SEETEC
SEETEC KSS CRC eventually made a pay offer at the turn of the year covering staff across all of their regions for 2020/2021. The offer followed a marked improvement in industrial relations between senior SEETEC Management and the unions and was a major factor in the offer being possible. This was in stark contrast to the attitudes and practices that were demonstrated by Working Links when they operated in the CRC areas that SEETEC took over in February 2019.
SEETEC KSS CRC were the first employer to declare that they were prepared to match the current NPS pay rates; a signal breakthrough for Napo in our long running campaigns to achieve pay parity across both arms of the Probation service. The offer tacitly recognised the need to motivate and retain existing staff and also make the company more attractive to potential employees. Indeed, within days of the pay offer becoming public, Napo learned of a number of employees from a neighbouring CRC leaving to take on better paid jobs with Seetec. General Secretary Ian Lawrence adds: “This should serve as a serious warning to all of Seetecs competitors or any would be bidders for new Probation Contracts.”
Union members subsequently voted by a huge majority to agree to the realignment of all salary bands to the current NPS Pay Scales. This resulted in 74% of the workforce receiving an increase of 4% or above, and 52% of the workforce receiving an increase of 5% or above.
While this settlement brought the pay dispute to a welcome end, the unions have reserved the right to make further representations if pay developments elsewhere warrant this.
Durham Tess Valley CRC.
The DTV CRC pay deal for 2020/21 and 2021/22 covers the remaining 15 months to contract end in June 2021, the pay deal provides a guaranteed minimum pay award of 6%, payable from April 2020 and assimilation onto the NPS pay scales. This means that the new pay scales will significantly reduce the time to progress through each pay band and the value of progression will be larger than in the current pay structure. Also, the offer guarantees each member of staff a minimum increase of 6% and some staff will receive a greater increase.
As this offer met our demand that the pay scales at DTV CRC are aligned to the NPS. Napo recommended acceptance of the pay offer and as a consequence Napo members voted overwhelmingly to accept the offer. The result of the ballot was 92% accept and 8% reject with a 50% turnout.
Sodexo
The Sodexo Pay Offer covers the six Sodexo CRCs (Northumbria, Cumbria & Lancashire, South Yorkshire, Essex, BeNCH and Norfolk & Suffolk). The pay offer covers the years 2020/21 and 2021/22 (contract end). This offer is for a two year pay deal and is being made following the work undertaken in previous years to modernise the pay structure so staff will reach the top of the scale within a much shorter timeframe.
The main terms of the offer are below:
2020/21 Pay Offer
2.5% Non-consolidated payment for those at the top of their pay band
A minimum pay increase for all other staff of 2.0%. For most this will be achieved through incremental progression however in instances where incremental progression is less than 2.0% a non-consolidated payment will be made.
2021/22 Pay Offer
2.5% Non-consolidated payment for those at the top of their pay band
A minimum pay increase for all other staff of 2.0%. For most this will be achieved through incremental progression however in instances where incremental progression is less than 2.0% a non-consolidated payment will be made.
Despite not meeting all the unions’ aspirations Napo and UNISON believe that this is the best deal achievable by negotiation taking into account the unique circumstances we find ourselves in because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, the unions did not make a recommendation to members and it is up to the members to decide. A ballot on the offer has been initiated and will conclude on the 27 April and members will decide to accept or reject the offer.
MTC
Pay talks commenced in February. The first session since the imposition of a pay award last year backdated to April 2019 which saw Staff moved up one spinal point and a non-consolidated payment of 1%, staff at the top of their scale received a 2% payment. The back pay element of the agreement was only relevant to basic pay not overtime or allowances.
The theme of disappointment continued as MTC declared that their ability fund a pay award for 2020/21 was challenging. Napo stated that if MTC want to invest in people, then they have to pay a going wage, otherwise this would impact on attrition rates in their CRCs in London and Thames Valley. It was noted that one of MTC competitors had put out a pay offer to match NPS pay banding. Napo also said that if MTC were among potential bidders for new contracts, the employer needed to do much better on pay.
Interserve
The unions have submitted our claim (CLICK HERE) and employer has provided us with pay data, but they haven't done the work to cost our claim. For this reason a meeting to discuss the claim was postponed from this week. It will now take place in the coming week.
WWM
Pay talks are still delayed and the unions are pressing for engagement to take place soon, but the unions have submitted the joint pay claim referenced below. A further update will follow once there is more news to report.
RRP
Pay discussions have got underway after a long delay, but have not got off to a good start with the employer claiming that the company are unable to fund an additional pay award beyond the cost of annual increments .
Napo and our sister unions are now consulting with members to test their views on a range of responses, but the next step will probably be an approach to the RRP Board to express members’ disappointment. Napo will also point out that if RRP see themselves as serious potential bidders for the intended Intervention and Programme Contracts from June 2020 they will be lagging seriously behind their likely competitors.
A government scheme to release prisoners early to help jails deal with coronavirus has been suspended after six offenders were freed by mistake. The inmates were mistakenly let out of two open prisons in Gloucestershire and Derbyshire. Officials said the men "returned compliantly to prison when asked to do so". The Prison Service said it had now strengthened its processes.
ReplyDeleteJustice Secretary Robert Buckland had previously said rigorous checks would take place before inmates were let out on the scheme. Up to 4,000 prisoners - those who were due to be freed within two months anyway - were eligible for the early release programme across England and Wales. Officials said on Tuesday that hundreds would be freed by the end of the week - with 14 pregnant prisoners and mothers with babies among those released.
The Prison Service attributed the six mistaken releases to "human error" and said processes were being changed to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.
A Prison Service statement said:
"We are aware of a small number of low-risk offenders who were released from prison under the temporary early release scheme following an administrative error. The men were released too early but were otherwise eligible under the scheme, and returned compliantly to prison when asked to do so. We have strengthened the administrative processes around the scheme to make sure this does not happen again."
Meanwhile campaigners threatened to take legal action against the government unless vulnerable and elderly prisoners are immediately released to protect them from contracting coronavirus. The Prisoners' Advice Service (PAS) warned such inmates were at an increased risk of dying or becoming seriously ill if they test positive for the virus, and called on Mr Buckland to take urgent action.
Coronavirus cases have been confirmed in almost half of the prisons in England and Wales. A total of 232 prisoners had tested positive for coronavirus in 60 jails as of 17:00 BST on Wednesday, and 13 inmates have died with coronavirus.
And presumably this is the real hidden reason that the early releases were stopped.
DeleteTory is as Tory does - punish everyone else for their incompetence. Buckland won't have to stay in a infectious hotbed for a few more weeks.
Having read several assessments for release, I can quite see how errors are being made.
ReplyDeleteThose attempting an assessment are plainly not best placed, nor experienced enough to do so.
One I read was on a remand Prisoner whose CRD had passed the week before. Remanded on a more serious matter, yet suggesting release "should be OK"
I kid you not.
Prisons are now hotspots for COVID. It’s is now not justified to release prisoners early because of the risks of spreading the virus with them to families, the public and professionals. The only way of doing this safely would be to quarantine all for 14 days prior to release. I do not believe the story put out as the reason for suspending early release, I think the government simply realised they had acted too slowly and left it too late.
ReplyDeleteThe reason for early release is because there's NO ROOM to keep prisoners seperate. There isn't space to quarantine them.
DeletePrison staff are entering and leaving prisons daily, and new prisoners are being sent to prisons every day, both from the courts and recalled by probation.
Covid19 poses a great risk to the general public whether prisons are released or not.
The idea of leaving anyone in a situation where its known their risk of infection and death is greatly increased is abhorrent.
Well there’s is because they’re locked in their cells in isolation wings. They cannot just release them all because that would be like releasing a bunch of lab rats and expecting nobody to become infected as a result. Keep them where they are until they can confirm they’re being released safely. The rights of these prisoners need to be balanced against those poor partners, friends and families they’re going to return to
DeleteIf there was enough isolation spaces available prisons would not be over crowed in the first place.
DeleteThere was never any suggestion that all prisoners were to be released either.
What about prison workers coming and going each day? Don't their poor families, partners and friends form part of the equation?
And I'm sure the poor family, partners and friends of prisoners won't be to happy going to a prison to collect a corpse instead of welcoming their loved ones home.
All keyworkers should be issued full PPE.
DeleteAntibody tests do not work. I think we’re now in for the long haul.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52335210
On the matter of pay negotiations and agreements, it's perhaps worth noting how Mitie, who hold many lucrative Government contracts are behaving.
ReplyDeleteYou just can't trust any of the bas****s.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/merseyrails-cleaning-contractor-accused-opportunism-18105152.amp
'Getafix
A company that provides cleaning facilities on Merseyrail trains has been accused of 'disgraceful opportunism' after a union said it withdrew a pay award for low-paid key worker staff, claiming it was using the coronavirus crisis as 'cover.'
DeleteRail union RMT has hit out at Mitie, a firm contracted to clean the region's trains, for withdrawing the pay offer - which should have been backdated to July. The union says it fought hard for the offer through a long campaign, it was due to lift pay rates for cleaning staff to £9 per hour, seen as a vital increase for staff and a crucial step towards securing them a Real Living Wage.
Merseyrail cleaning staff are among the key workers currently putting themselves at potential risk to keep the region's transport network running during the lockdown. RMT said it had accepted the back-dated offer but said staff have now been informed by email that it has been pulled, denying them £500 in back pay and leaving them with the prospect of being £1000 a year worse off per annum. The union claims this is a 'profiteering move' that displays the most disgraceful and cynical opportunism in the midst of the current emergency.
RMT's executive said it will now consider declaring a formal dispute as part of a campaign to secure justice for a group of staff who have been "right at the front-line, keeping Merseyrail services running at risk to themselves throughout the coronavirus crisis."
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: “This is disgusting and disgraceful opportunism by Mitie on Merseyrail to use the cover of the coronaviris crisis to kick these low paid cleaning and facilities staff in the teeth. We know that the public in Merseyside will be as outraged as we are and will want to join us in a campaign to reverse this sickening decision. RMT's executive will now consider the political, industrial and public campaign we will be mounting and rest assured we will fight tooth and nail for pay and workplace justice for the Mitie Merseyrail workforce."
In response, Mitie said: “We value all our key workers and the critical role they are playing in keeping the UK running during these unprecedented times. Under the current circumstances all pay increases across the entire company have been paused. Indeed, the majority of our managerial and office-based staff have taken pay cuts to ensure the financial health of the business in the short-term. We expect any pay negotiations currently on hold to continue as businesses across the country start returning to normal operations.”
With regards to the early release scheme, we received lists of prisoners to assess from the centre, who gave us less than 24 hours to make risk assessments, speak to the prisoner, make accommodation checks, contact community officers and report back on who was suitable. However, the criteria we were working to was so restrictive that only two from our list met the requirements for release. The medically vulnerable list presented even further risk assessment issues. The public, the media and the families of prisoners need to know the reality of the pressure the MOJ are placing prison staff under, to meet totally unrealistic and at times unsafe targets.
ReplyDeleteI think that's a very good point annon @12:47, and it's a point well made.
DeleteIt demonstrates very clearly the unrealistic and unachievable demands and pressures that are being placed on criminal justice workers.
You also highlight just how complex the criminal justice system has become. Not just now because an emergency requires urgent action, but also how complex it is anyway even in normal times.
If the criminal justice system was a building it would be condemned for not having enough exit routes or fire escapes.
I think the Governments thinking on which prisoners were to be released, primarily based on time left to serve was flawed from the beginning. It showed little understanding of the issues faced by those short term prisoners eligible for possible release like accomodation or even the likelyhood of non compliance with Government restrictions on the general public.
Identifying prisons as a petri dish for contamination and then attempting to resolve the problem by releasing only those with the least time left to serve is just based in ideology not on rational thinking. It didn't consider the resources that would taken up by other CJ agencies and local councils. Nor did it account for the risk posed by different types of prisons.
I note those that were released in error were already housed in the open estate, but releasing prisoners from open prison has no real impact on where the risk is greatest namely local prisons and the densely populated Cat C estate.
I think it worth noting too, that those released in error was because they didn't fit the criteria because of the time left to serve. But they were eligible for ROTL, and most importantly, they complied fully with returning to custody when instructed to do so.
The criteria decided upon for early release makes little sense to me, nor do I think it offers much of a solution to the grave threat of Coronavirus.
Extraordinary times requires extraordinary solutions. When thinking is constrained within ideological boundaries then the solutions required to deal with those extraordinary circumstances will jut be the same old, same old, and never really achieve what's necessary.
'Getafix
Absolutely nail on head as ever, Getafix. PS: Some of this would be so much less complicated if the MoJ allowed Probation Officers to make professional decisions based on the current -extraordinary- circumstances.
DeleteThat might be because they're aren't really any easy-to-come-by solutions to the grave threat of coronavirus. At least not one that doesn't just shift the risks on to other individuals or groups. Much as some might like to believe this a further conspiracy against the have-nots, it's more likely that it is actually complicated and outcomes are very very difficult to predict. It doesn't really help to imply that there is a safe and straightforward solution known only to an intellectual few.
ReplyDeleteThough we do at least seem to have progressed from a bus conversation to a pub conversation. Which is a step in the right direction...
I cannot take it anymore. You all just want people released with no checks.or you always think the offender is the victim. It's no wonder someone thought it appropriate to say Worboys was safe to release. Get real. No approved risk assessment then no release. Simples so dont complicate things.
ReplyDeleteI can't relate your comment to anything that has been said so far today.
DeleteCould you clarify?
[sarcasm warning]
ReplyDeleteYeah! Liberate Michigan! Liberate Virginia! Give everybody guns! "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." "Heil Witmer!" (as seen on mis-spelled placard outside the Governor's office).
[sarcasm over]
The ability of some governments is way below par. Trump has gone even more rogue, imagine that! Our own gov't has screwed up but won't admit it, which is worse than screwing up as it compounds the difficulties & places personal & ideological resistance in the path of progress.
The prisoner issue seems to be a good example.
Preparation for the release of 15,000 prisoners on whatever schemes they could muster should have happened weeks ago. It was only announced after significant time-consuming lobbying, then it was immediately put on hold after understandable human error. Ideologically the Tories didn't want to do it, and they are still dragging their feet.
This pandemic hasn't happened in the last week. Its been known about for quite a while.
Why didn't they equip probation (inside & out), local authorities and EMS (the taggers) to prepare for a mass early release? Multi-agency delivery in suitable buildings, PPE provision & housing opportunities for those NFA. Why? Because it was an inconceivable option for the Tories. Even the science was ignored on this one.
But because of the delays & interim hold-ups, its an infinitely worse scenario. There will now be unknown thousands infected in the prison system where the virus will cycle & recycle for months and months, and where the virus will be released into the community with those whose mandatory end-of-sentence dates arrive with the passing of time. No testing or symptomology will allow for delaying their release.
If there is now to be no large-scale release then the prisons need to stop swapping & changing establishment populations, which will only serve to perpetuate infection. Those who have to be released should be thoroughly assessed pre-release including antigen and anti-body tests, i.e. do they have it or have they had it? Medics already believe the most contagious period for the virus is between initial contagion & 72 hours later when the virus is establishing itself & replicating at speed. Work is also being done to ascertain whether the end-state of the infection affords another highly contagious period when the virus recognises the host is fighting back & starts to replicate quickly again to find a new host. Its thought this might explain the often reported getting better/getting worse phase.
To clarify: from 8 April 2020
DeleteRelease Figures announced were 4,000
"New powers introduced this week mean up to 4,000 could be released on licence conditions under orders to stay at home, and with electronic tags to monitor them so that they can be returned to prison if they don’t."
The ideal was confirmed as:
"The Chief Executive of the Prison Service, Dr Jo Farrar, confirmed to the Committee that the prison population would, on present figures, have to be cut by between 10,000 and 15,000, from a current total of just under 83,000 in England and Wales, to allow all prisoners to live in a single cell."
https://committees.parliament.uk/work/254/coronavirus-covid19-the-impact-on-prison-probation-and-court-systems/publications/
ReplyDeleteLink on here to minutes of 14/apr meeting
Link below to the 8 Apr news:
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/102/justice-committee/news/145871/challenge-of-social-distancing-in-prisons-discussed-at-commons-committee/
Just reading through the minutes of 14 Apr & came across this:
ReplyDelete"On accommodation, I think Mr Slaughter was asking how we were supporting accommodation operationally. In probation, under the National Probation Service, we have set up seven regional homelessness prevention taskforces. They include probation officers and also a seconded police officer and other officials. We are working to try to secure accommodation where we can for those ndividuals. We have set up a specific taskforce to try to work through those cases."
Anyone heard of it or involved in it?
Seems if you're NFA you can stay that way:
"On tagging, all the people released under ECTR will be fitted with a GPS tag, meaning that they don’t have to have a home base fitted, so we will be fitting the tags as they leave prison."
As for no probation involvement in early releases:
"Probation will be doing a job to support those people on release to ensure that the public are safe. We have talked about tagging. Everyone will be tagged at the prison, as Amy mentioned. In addition to that, everyone
should be able to be contacted. Where prisoners do not have a mobile phone, we will ensure that they do have a mobile phone. They will be given the name of an offender manager, who will contact them within 48 hours to ensure that they are safe and compliant."
Amy Rees: "Just to go over the statutory probation position, as you are aware, these are releases on temporary licence, meaning that those individuals are still serving prisoners, so they are not under statutory probation supervision. They will be picked up, though, as the Minister has said, and given a named offender manager. That offender manager will contact them within the first 48 hours, and that is primarily about support, in the way that you outline. They will then contact them as often as is needed, depending on the need, accommodation, etc. But there is a minimum 14 days before they switch to what would be their usual release date, when they will of course come back under the statutory probation supervision, had they been released not under this scheme."
DeleteSo it WILL be a probation service burden.
Who's going to contact someone within 48 hours of release, find out about a whole heap of support needs then drop them, only to pick them up again in the next 2 weeks?? Smoke & Mirrors.
Released NFA but given a mobile phone so probation can contact you.
DeleteHow do you charge a mobile phone when you're NFA?
[sarcasm alert]
DeleteYou rub it vigorously up & down between the nylon jumper & nylon polo shirt you were given in your Oxfam parcel. Plenty of static electricity to charge a 'phone.
Nothing about recent homelessness prevention taskforces but found these:
DeletePublished 30 November 2017
From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP
Homelessness Task Force - The Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Implementation Taskforce will be chaired by the Communities Secretary Sajid Javid.
___________________________
On his election in May 2017, Andy Street pledged to make tackling homelessness and rough sleeping a priority. One of the first actions was the creation of a Homelessness Task Force which aims to 'design out homelessness in the West Midlands'.
Green light to Homelessness Taskforce’s plan to design out homelessness
Friday 12 July, 2019
_______________________
Telegraph 8 Sept 2019
DeleteThe number of offenders released from jail to sleep rough on the streets has hit a high of more than 100 a month, threatening public safety from the greater risk of reoffending, HM Chief Inspector of Probation has revealed.
New figures from the Ministry of Justice show 1,287 prisoners were released onto the streets to sleep rough in 2018/19, with a further 3,455 “homeless” and another 8,480 at risk of homelessness from being placed in “unsettled” accommodation.
That represents one in eight of the total 109,000 prisoners released from jails last year. That does not include a further 29,400 prisoners whose accommodation status was “unknown” on release, almost treble the number in the previous year.
*****The Homelessness Reduction Act, which came into force in October 2018, puts an obligation on prison and probation services to refer prison leavers to local authorities if they are at risk of homelessness.*****
However, charities have pointed out that this is often just a transfer of information rather than a resolution – with many single homeless people deemed “intentionally” homeless because they had been in prison.
Homelessness Reduction Act 2017
Delete(effective as of April 2018)
Duty on public authorities in England to refer cases
10 - Duty of public authority to refer cases to local housing authority
After section 213A of the Housing Act 1996, but before the heading after that section (general provisions), insert—
“213B Duty of public authority to refer cases in England to local housing authority
(1) This section applies if a specified public authority considers that a person in England in relation to whom the authority exercises functions is or may be homeless or threatened with homelessness.
(2) The specified public authority must ask the person to agree to the authority notifying a local housing authority in England of—
(a) the opinion mentioned in subsection (1), and
(b) how the person may be contacted by the local housing authority.
(3) If the person—
(a) agrees to the specified public authority making the notification, and
(b) identifies a local housing authority in England to which the person would like the notification to be made,
the specified public authority must notify that local housing authority of the matters mentioned in subsection (2)(a) and (b).
(4) In this section “specified public authority” means a public authority specified, or of a description specified, in regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(5)In subsection (4) “public authority” means a person (other than a local housing authority) who has functions of a public nature.”
The up's & down's of a single month:
ReplyDelete15 March 2020 - "On inmates possibly being freed, Mr Gillan said: "There are no plans now to release prisoners but it cannot be ruled out."
18 March - the first coronavirus case was reported in a UK prison [HMP Manchester]
19 March - 75 officers at HMP Berwyn in Wales were off work due to sickness or self-isolation
20 March - "any prisoner or detainee with a new, continuous cough or a high temperature should be placed in protective isolation for 7 days". MoJ
March 21 - former justice secretary David Gauke called for suspension of short sentences and early release of some prisoners to avoid COVID-19 spread
4 April - "Risk-assessed prisoners who are within two months of their release date will be temporarily released from jail, as part of the national plan to protect the NHS and save lives." MoJ
18 April - "Six inmates were mistakenly freed from prison under the government’s temporary release scheme to combat the spread of the coronavirus, it has emerged, prompting an urgent suspension of the programme." The Guardian
18 April - "These errors must not be used as an excuse for inaction in the face on an oncoming public health disaster. Prisons are overcrowded, with thousands of cells containing more than one inmate, against the advice of Public Health England." David Lammy
Going back to the post about pay.... I work for one of the Sodexo CRC's, what I cant understand is this.... ''Despite not meeting all the unions’ aspirations Napo and UNISON believe that this is the best deal achievable by negotiation taking into account the unique circumstances we find ourselves in because of the Covid-19 pandemic'' .. why does this matter ?? why can't they pay the NPS rates like other CRC's ?? the Virus sounds like a cop out to me and this is backed up by Jim's entry (12.35) about Mitie ( ok they have reneged ) but are still saying it is because of the virus and are rightly slammed by the ever impressive RMT ….
ReplyDeleteThe virus will present many multinationals with the opertuity to renege on promises and commitments.
DeleteSodexo may or may not follow Mitie, but there is a lot of similarities in their approach to the virus.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN21K0H6
Top managers at French food services and catering company Sodexo (EXHO.PA) have agreed to pay cuts, which it said would help fund a 30-million-euro (26.64 million pounds) programme to aid staff facing lay-offs as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
DeleteOn Thursday, Sodexo said Chairwoman Sophie Bellon would waive 50% of her remuneration over the coming six months, as would Chief Executive Denis Machuel, along with his variable remuneration for fiscal year 2020.
Sodexo added it had reinforced health and safety measures for its staff, against the backdrop of the pandemic.
Last month, Sodexo, which, alongside British company Compass (CPG.L), ranks among the world’s largest catering groups, suspended its annual forecast and said the pandemic could hit annual sales by 2 billion euros.
The problem is Napo they should not be recommending an agreement on pay knowing those nice people over at Seetec settled with their staffing arrangement to offer harmonised NPS scale as a recruiting and fairness position. It had little to do with napo. a tactical savvy Seetec position and resolved all its pay deals across 4 major areas. That deal is the pay standard and Napo should realise anywhere short of that results in action for members to consider what that is. Instead the cowardly miserly costing leaderships see staff shafted.
DeleteThat's very noble of these people who 'help fund a 30-million-euro (26.64 million pounds) programme to aid staff facing lay-offs as a result of the coronavirus crisis.' but lets not forget they have been paid very well for years prior. unlike Sodexo CRC Staff..
ReplyDeleteApril 2020 - "As the Chairwoman of the Board of Sodexo SA, the total compensation of Sophie Bellon at Sodexo SA is $627,077. There are 1 executives at Sodexo SA getting paid more, with Denis Machuel having the highest compensation of $3,643,980."
DeleteSurprised no-one's got the prisoner population working on making scrubs &/or other PPE for the NHS
ReplyDelete81,500 prisoners as at 17 April 2020
If only a quarter of those are involved in making one set of 'scrubs' each a day that's 20,000 sets of 'scrubs'/gowns a day which, given the NHS as a whole estimate they're using 155,000 sets a day, would be a massive help.
Or is that not acceptable to Tories either?
That idea crossed my mind. There's plenty of facilities available.
DeleteBut like everywhere else prisons are on lockdown, and so many staff sick or self isolating the workshops just can't be used.
Thanks 19.23, …so if I guess conservatively and add up all the other top knobs pay sacrifices then they've cracked it... so pay us the going rate ! gits
ReplyDeleteTop Brass taking pay cuts. Shareholders getting less dividends because of lost revenue. Of course us lowly worker will get our pay rise. Not!
DeleteDon't Forget The Second Wave
ReplyDelete"The virus (1918 flu) first appeared in early March 1918, had all the hallmarks of a seasonal flu, albeit a highly contagious and virulent strain, & infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. While the global pandemic lasted for two years, the vast majority of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918 - the 'second wave'."
While everyone is getting twitchy about the economy there are longer term issues about a resurgence of cases.
Japan thought it had managed the pandemic but is facing a second wave scenario and doesn't think it can cope this time.
Trump's self-interested madness is laying the foundations for a perfect second wave storm.
And here in the UK no-one seems to be recognising there might be a second wave effect, certainly not in public.
Thanks 19.52 but its less a pay rise and more the realisation that the going rate needs to be paid ! .. I can give you an example of how valued I am...pre virus... User Voice a very valued organisation I'm sure , advertise a job ( I got an internal email ) asking if any service user would be suitable to be trained for a role in their organisation, I referred two and a colleague noticed a staring salary of £25000, I have been a pso for 11 years and earn not much more and she has a degree and would have to practice for some time in our CRC to earn £25000 plus. taking nothing away from service users but how can this be right ? .. pay the going rate. gits!
ReplyDeleteHere we go. We started with caring for prisoners being released early and we quickly resorted to the preferred narrative of authority bashing which today was MOJ not doing enough. Now we are back to what's in it for me and crying about pay. Listen greedies, you're safe at home receiving money. Some poor sod sitting in porridge scared they going to get sick with no proper access to healthcare. Stop being so selfish. You want the big bucks then get to the top table and become brass. Until then, stop moaning about what you not got and be happy for what you have got
DeleteI don't like whats published in the Daily Mail.
DeleteGuess what? I don't read it so I don't get aggravated by the content. Simples!
? Is the PR war being won by this Tory govt?
ReplyDelete? Is the UK govt massaging the coronavirus data?
? Is Prof Anthony Costello going to be proved right when he gave evidence to the Health Committee saying the UK will have the highest death toll in Europe?
? Why do probation management need to take the PPE issue seriously & stop being so cavalier with their staff?
1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52341403
"The number of deaths linked to coronavirus in UK care homes in one week could be double that of the whole previous month, according to a report.
The National Care Forum (NCF) said if the pattern it found in its audit was repeated across all residential and nursing homes, more than 4,000 elderly and disabled people have died.
It comes amid calls for accurate data on virus-linked care home deaths.
Only 207 such deaths have been recorded officially in England and Wales.
That is because the daily number of UK-wide coronavirus deaths, announced each day by the government, only includes people who died with the virus in hospital in the four nations."
* Add this to the 15,464 recorded deaths in hospitals & we're nearly at 20,000. Today's figures will take us past that sad, grim landmark. If we are, as is often quoted, two weeks behind Italy in terms of progress of the virus, then we are some 4,000+ deaths ahead of their total at the same point.
* Italy's current death toll from coronavirus is 23,227.
2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-52321600/coronavirus-we-could-see-40000-deaths-in-this-wave
Coronavirus: 'We could see 40,000 deaths in this wave'
"Professor Anthony Costello of University College London's Institute for Global Health has suggested that the UK "could see 40,000 deaths in this wave" of coronavirus cases.
He also warned that the country was "going to face further waves" of infections and said that the development of a vaccine was key in the fight against the virus.
His comments came as the UK's Health and Social Care Committee heard evidence - via video link - about the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic."