[theo_luddite]

The final throws of a desperate Government that knows this bullshit won't last 5 minutes once they are out. It's all about appeasing the Mail/Express reading racists and "scounger haters" who haven't a clue why they get
- paid Bank Holidays, (given they've just had one of the first ever)
- paid holidays (at least 4 weeks generally)
- sick pay from their company as opposed to SSP, or even SSP in the first place
- don't work weekends for the most part (they still do in India, especially Saturdays, which on my two visits made me think, what the Dickens? ... some factories are almost that modern)
- paid maternity leave
- overtime payments
- 35-40 hour working weeks
- topped up pension funds
- better than Government minimum redundancy pay (if it ever comes to that) or even any redundancy pay to start with.

"Annoyed of Penge" and "Cheesed off in the Chalfonts" of course never joined a Union, or made sure no funds went to the Labour Party if they did, but they never turned down the benefits that the Union's had negotiated on their behalf and were adopted by work places that "saw the benefits of offering the benefits" to attract the best they could find for the jobs they needed to fill.

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PS Annoyed should say Pissed Off