Employers are forcing staff to spread Covid-19, research finds
Rampant: the Covid-19 virus is once again on the loose across the UK because the Tories haven’t just lost control; they’ve deliberately thrown it away.
This is what wage slavery does to people; it forces us to do the wrong thing, harming not just our own health but that of everybody around us.
This Writer had to face it in one of my newspaper jobs. The company dictated that employees could only take a maximum of five sick days per year – and I suffered from cluster headaches.
The condition is now acknowledged by the NHS to cause the most extreme pain of any kind at all; when it comes on, it can last around three months, inflicting excruciating migraines on the sufferer (in my case) around four times a day.
You can see the problem. The condition could last three months but I was allowed only five days off work. Even taking all my vacation time, I could not cover the time I needed.
So this does not surprise me at all:
Thousands of workers feel pressured to return to their jobs when they still risk spreading coronavirus, and employers who breach Covid guidelines are avoiding serious punishment, according to evidence of major weaknesses in England’s lockdown measures.
One in 10 of those doing insecure work, such as zero-hours contracts and agency or gig economy jobs, said they had been to work within 10 days of a positive Covid test, according to research seen by the Observer. For workers overall the proportion is around one in 25.
These people have been coerced into endangering themselves and the people around them.
And consider the consequences. Suppose family members, friends, people on the same bus or train caught Covid-19 as a result, and some died. Who would get the blame for infecting them? The firm that forced people to work when they were sick? Or the employee?
I think we all know the answer.
And now the Tory government wants to cut back employees’ rights.
New Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied plans to strip us of our entitlement to paid holidays and other protections – but he is infamous for having condemned UK workers are “among the worst idlers in the world”, that the UK “rewards laziness” and “too many people in Britain prefer a lie-in to hard work”.
So what do you think he’s going to do?
Meanwhile,
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors have not issued any enforcement notices on companies for Covid safety breaches since the start of the latest lockdown, despite having been contacted 2,945 times between 6 and 14 January about safety issues.
Just 0.1% of about 97,000 Covid safety cases it has dealt with during the pandemic appear to have resulted in the issuing of an improvement or prohibition notice. No company has been prosecuted for a Covid-related breach.
This is just not taking Covid-19 seriously.
No wonder the virus is rampaging across the UK and our hospitals are being overwhelmed.
Source: Staff ‘pressured to go back to work’ in breach of UK Covid rules | Coronavirus | The Guardian
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.. these ppl the-so-called- elite. are fabrication the dismal vaccination of the poor to make them look like heroes..
I for one won’t forget the thousands of poor old age ppl in their care homes have passed away because of their lack of awareness & don’t give a f**k anyways sorry but it’s true…