[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

OK, to try and move the conversation along and so we can all try and get an understanding of how you feel things should change, let's just look at the first paragraph. It would help me understand you if you could answer me three questions:

1. Would you be happy with companies using your personal data for anything they wanted, including selling it to the highest bidder anywhere in the world?
2. How many hours a week would you happily work?
3. If your company got taken over, would you like your terms and conditions preserved or be happy for the new owners to be allowed to change them as they saw fit?

And for info, my answers are:

1. I do 37 hours at the moment and that's enough.
2. No I don't want companies holding my data longer than they need and I don't want them to be able to do whatever they want with it.
3. I would like my conditions preserved.

You see, this is the common response. But we are not talking about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Yes, 37 hours a week may suit you, but others may want to work longer hours. The legislation does not allow the choice that a lot of people want to achieve the standard of living they want. For some low paid workers, working longer hours could prove the difference between eating or not eating. You also ignore the fact that the Working Time Regulations is rather more extensive in scope than the 48 hour week.

We are all concerned about data protection, but the GDPR is extremely bureaucratic in its application. Are you really happy to have that ridiculous screen come up each time that you have to accept to proceed? It's simply unnecessary.

All the EU laws require review to establish which provisions are necessary, and is the legislation addressing the problem at hand without unnecessary bureaucracy?

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Originally Posted by jfman

Your hyperbole fails the sniff test.

You need to get a Covid test.

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Originally Posted by ianch99

Not quite, they voted to leave the EU. Keep up dear ..

You really do have just a single answer when confronted with the damage this decision has done and that is to gaslight. Decisions need to be owned, if you promise the earth and do not deliver then you will be held to account. Moreover, when the aim is to continue the fantasy when the evidence is all around demonstrating that it is folly, you end up with:

Nonsense, Ian. The benefits of Brexit have yet to be felt, given that Covid has effectively stalled the process.

Brexit - leaving the EU....what do you see as being the difference?

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Originally Posted by jfman

Maybe not personally but OB has already admitted making a career out of steamrollering workers rights advising unscrupulous employers in driving down working conditions to squeeze further profits at their expense. Like parasites.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...9&postcount=19

Whether he’d want those things for himself who knows.

God, more conflation from this man. He's just interested in trading insults instead of debating.