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A demonstration of how how hidebound with regulations Britain has become, along with a fear of breaking them, can be found with the redundancy notice sent to a 13-year old paperboy in Bedfordshire.
The lad was sent a redundancy notice along with a cheque for ‘one week's pay in lieu of notice, which equates to £6.53 (subject to tax and NI)’. The boy said when asked by reporters, ‘I felt annoyed and upset.’ I can understand his feelings.
What surprises me is, not the redundancy notice or the apparant lack of prior consultatation, but the absence of confirmation that the lad had a Criminal Records Check before he was allowed to put newspapers into people’s letterboxes, or that he wore the correct headgear when riding his cycle which had also been checked over for Health & Safety breaches and that he only went out with a dozen newspapers at a time to prevent him from getting a hernia lifting them or ...
See what I mean? I’m at it now!
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A demonstration of how how hidebound with regulations Britain has become, along with a fear of breaking them, can be found with the redundancy notice sent to a 13-year old paperboy in Bedfordshire.
The lad was sent a redundancy notice along with a cheque for ‘one week's pay in lieu of notice, which equates to £6.53 (subject to tax and NI)’. The boy said when asked by reporters, ‘I felt annoyed and upset.’ I can understand his feelings.
What surprises me is, not the redundancy notice or the apparant lack of prior consultatation, but the absence of confirmation that the lad had a Criminal Records Check before he was allowed to put newspapers into people’s letterboxes, or that he wore the correct headgear when riding his cycle which had also been checked over for Health & Safety breaches and that he only went out with a dozen newspapers at a time to prevent him from getting a hernia lifting them or ...
See what I mean? I’m at it now!
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