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Rhyming Obituary · 25-04-2008, 16:02

I really do think it's time that the government started to get involved with the way that outsourcing is being used in this country today.

It's not even necessarily just a cost saving measure anymore - not one which it was originally designed to be anyway, that is to bring in temporary staff during times of high employment.

British companies are doing this type of thing purely as a method of denying their staff fair pay, while also denying them fair working rights and benefits.

Most of the staff in VM when they were TUPE'd over lost out hugely after the 12 month TUPE period in terms of working conditions and cost of living pay rises.

If you end up stepping on somebody's toes they can just say that "you're no longer required on that contract" and be told that you'll need to find work elsewhere with your outsourced employer which either magically never appears or is of so poor quality that it's just better to jump ship.

Hell, even my father was affected by this outsourcing malarkey and he's an engineering manager working in Liverpool (not for VM). They froze his salary and doubled his workload.

TUPE doesn't go far enough in ensuring that workers rights are protected, and if you ask me, it's time the government started introducing quotas detailing how much of a percentage of staff must be "directly" employed by a company, or at the very least, directly employed within the UK.

25-04-2008, 16:02	#26
Rhyming Obituary Inactive Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In a hole somewhere... Services: 1 X PVR 1 X Samsung 2110c Cable Modem Telco Line Posts: 92	Re: More redundancies I really do think it's time that the government started to get involved with the way that outsourcing is being used in this country today. It's not even necessarily just a cost saving measure anymore - not one which it was originally designed to be anyway, that is to bring in temporary staff during times of high employment. British companies are doing this type of thing purely as a method of denying their staff fair pay, while also denying them fair working rights and benefits. Most of the staff in VM when they were TUPE'd over lost out hugely after the 12 month TUPE period in terms of working conditions and cost of living pay rises. If you end up stepping on somebody's toes they can just say that "you're no longer required on that contract" and be told that you'll need to find work elsewhere with your outsourced employer which either magically never appears or is of so poor quality that it's just better to jump ship. Hell, even my father was affected by this outsourcing malarkey and he's an engineering manager working in Liverpool (not for VM). They froze his salary and doubled his workload. TUPE doesn't go far enough in ensuring that workers rights are protected, and if you ask me, it's time the government started introducing quotas detailing how much of a percentage of staff must be "directly" employed by a company, or at the very least, directly employed within the UK.