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So we have driving licences for? :confused: I'm sorry, but this is just like advertising for someone to fill an accountant job, but not putting in the info that it's actually accounting and you need the relevant qualifications. :rolleyes:
 
With the added advantage that they can employ people who do not own a car thus freeing up the visitors/patients parking spaces & increasing the revenue generated.
As it stands at many hospitals the staff are given consessions to park free of charge.
Oh.. & it'll look on the face of it as if they are running a 'greener & more health conscious' hospital which will show up statistically as a reduction in overall carbon footprinting.
All depends how we choose to view changes.
 
With the added advantage that they can employ people who do not own a car thus freeing up the visitors/patients parking spaces & increasing the revenue generated.
As it stands at many hospitals the staff are given consessions to park free of charge.
Oh.. & it'll look on the face of it as if they are running a 'greener & more health conscious' hospital which will show up statistically as a reduction in overall carbon footprinting.
All depends how we choose to view changes.

Considering the job entails covering 3000 sq miles and the employer not the employee would have to incur travel expensies i do not think your idea would be cost effective
 
With the added advantage that they can employ people who do not own a car thus freeing up the visitors/patients parking spaces & increasing the revenue generated.
As it stands at many hospitals the staff are given consessions to park free of charge.
Oh.. & it'll look on the face of it as if they are running a 'greener & more health conscious' hospital which will show up statistically as a reduction in overall carbon footprinting.
All depends how we choose to view changes.


In North Wales they going to charge staff for using the car park about £100 pa

They charge the poor patients already as a result car park mostly empty, how do some patients get to hosp? They get relatives to drive them then pick them up again resulting in double journey more conjestion more co2. This in an area with hardy any public transport

But they have built a supid cycle way which is empty expecting ill and injured people to cycle miles to get treatment
 
Considering the job entails covering 3000 sq miles and the employer not the employee would have to incur travel expensies i do not think your idea would be cost effective
:) I take it you read more from Bernies post than I.
I presumed it was to be their standard policy, not for one specific type of job.
 
Hi Alice

i thought since where Bernies lives the area that the person might cover would have less of a public transport system then i have in Herts.
The guys who think these rules up are just trying to cover their own backs when they know the job needs a car driver but cannot state so
madness i'm afraid
David
 
we had a case on the news - were a company has just got a contract with a german company - so avertised for a german speaker - that got pulled as it was against those who didn't speak german, even though that was a requirement of the job

it's madness
 
:D its a bit like advertising for a bus driver one of the required qualifications is having a PSV licence whether full or provisional and then saying anybody can apply!! (some people don't even get past applying for the provisional the DVLA do criminal record checks and if you have certain offences you don't have a chance!)
 
Of course the employer can always pay to train the applicant.
I trust they are accepting appications from people who live in the home counties and have no intention of moving up to Scotland. Anything less would be blatantly anti-English. (actually my employer sort of runs a non-home-ist policy. One of the team I am in lives 80 miles away and has never actually been to our office)
This opens up whole new employment opportunities for all of us.... see you guys the next set of Brain Surgeon interviews.
 
In North Wales they going to charge staff for using the car park about £100 pa

They charge the poor patients already as a result car park mostly empty, how do some patients get to hosp? They get relatives to drive them then pick them up again resulting in double journey more conjestion more co2. This in an area with hardy any public transport

But they have built a supid cycle way which is empty expecting ill and injured people to cycle miles to get treatment

Let's clarify that, at some hospitals in North Wales they charge staff.

North West Wales NHS Trust don't charge staff at all, only visitors using the carpark closest to the main entrance.

North East charge about £50 and £25 if you earn less than 20k.

Conwy and Denbighshire were planning on charging those earning more than 15k £100 and everyone else a reduced rate, it was on hold while they negoiated with the unions, don't know the outcome of that.

Back to the original story , seems a bit mad to me, but then that seems to sum this country up nowdays.

I was in a meeting last week at work with HR I joked that the insistance that all grade 6 posts and above are supposed to be advertised as degree essential quailification posts could be seen as age discrimination as young people are more likely to have a degree and they are actualy looking into it.
 
If managements had more sense (an oxymoron I know) they wouldn't worry about this sort of thing and just state the perfectly bl**dy obvious. If anyone felt they were being discriminated against, they should bring a law suit off their own back. So far so good.

If judges had any sense - not an oxymoron because they are sensible, its reality they've lost their grip on - they would get this all into court, listen to the opening statements then, throw it out as being a waste of time money and common sense. Then they should award costs against the plaintif. That would concentrate someone's mind wonderfully.

On the subject of the subthread - hospital parking etc - it is only Wednesday and already this week I have spent £43 in parking and TfL charges. As I've said before on this forum, this is how it works;

I will claim that as a legitimate expense and my company will include it in their accounts as 'a cost of service.' They will 'uplift' that by 'an appropriate business margin' ranging from 35% to 50% and then (somewhat indirectly, but no less actually) charge it to our main customer - the NHS - plus 17.5% VAT. Feel good guys - you are paying nearly twice as much for my parking as various NHS Trusts get from me.

Roger.
 
But Roger, you aren't being cynical enough: the millions of pounds extra being pumped into the health service comes from your parking charges...

Jonathan Paton
 
in the Yorkshire post a week or two back was an article about an asian univeristy lecturer who has now been banned from taking any employer to an industrial tribunal in the future. Dont quote me on the figures but he had taken out something like 40 actions against two or three universities he had worked for on the basis that he had been variously discriminated against because of his race/colour. he had lost evey single case and yet he had ended up with tons of cash compensation for the anguish of having been wrong and had racked up a fortune in legal aid and cost the various employers hundreds of thousands. he was described as a serial litigant (sp) who simply enjoyed causing hassle to and costing employers money. with people like that about no wonder such silly measures have to be taken when dealing with employment issues. and yes, the world has gone mad.
 
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