Tony Blair’s Britain

15 Replies to “Tony Blair’s Britain”

1. Well, at least this is one law/rule in the EU that the Muslims can’t ride roughshod over. One requires a job that offers vacay and, well, welfare doesn’t.

2. “self-certify?” sounds sexy

3. It happens here. My wife just told me that at the college where she used to work, one of the employees went back to the Phillipines every year for a vacation and every year she brought back a note signed by a doctor that she was sick for the two weeks. The employee was, of course, in the union.

4. this could have dire consequences, the unions could wind up out of work:-)))

5. This is also the case in the Canadian government. I had the flu during my vacation and they could not understand why I didn’t use sick leave for time lost.

6. What happens if the weather is lousy and it rains on my camping trip? Can I claim it?

7. John B, ‘sounds like it.

8. Can a sickly person put in for a new life? Can stupid people put in a claim for a better brain? Where does the reparation of all faults stop? If this continues we are on our way to everyone having twenty bucks and an apartment.
   I prefer a society where rich people lose everything and then try to get it back. Where some poor people stop whining, get to working and wind up middle class. That is a dynamic society. That is how life should be lived … with ups and downs. Booms and busts. Anything else is gray and futile.

9. This story makes me want to vomit!

10. “This story makes me want to vomit!
    Posted by: Larry Bennett at September 15, 2009 11:24 PM ”
    Make sur you do that on your vacation time Larry!!
    What’s next?

11. Make sure you drink the water.

12. England — Already gone to hell in a hand basket…

13. Just another nail in the coffin of the once Great Britain.

14. Old news – this provision was actually in my employment contract 20 years ago in a private satellite communications company in the UK. I think most employees there have access to this provision already – just part of the more relaxed attitude to time-off that Europe has. My last job before I left the UK I had six weeks annual vacation, so this kind of provision hardly ever got used by anyone. We don’t get enough time off in North America, which encourages (not excuses) abuse.

15. In most jobs, if you have benefits, you get so much sick leave and so much vacation leave. You can’t pyramid them and can only take one kind of leave at a time. Should you get sick on vacation, if you satisfy the contract, you can convert the vacation leave to sick leave and retain the vacation leave for a better time. They’re not getting both. At least not simultaneously. I mean sure this would be scandalous if they were flying you to the Med for vacation and you could say you’re sick once you get there but that’s not the case, is it?