How Some Companies are Treating Their Staff

"Another employee, Chloe Riley, had been working at Wren in Sunderland since August. Riley, 21, was hired with a two-year probation period, meaning she could be dismissed with a week’s notice. “There’s hundreds of us up and down the country who have been let go,” she said. "
Why does it take two years to find out if an employee can do the job?
 
My son-in-law is a self-employed contractor in construction. He's been told in no uncertain terms by the site agent that if he isn't in tomorrow as normal, there'll be no work for him to return to when this is over.
 
HarryVegas said:
My son-in-law is a self-employed contractor in construction. He's been told in no uncertain terms by the site agent that if he isn't in tomorrow as normal, there'll be no work for him to return to when this is over.
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Not only is that an appalling situation but I would hazard a guess that site isn’t essential work under the definition. The next set of measures Im pretty certain will start to close non “essential“ construction sites.
 
The worst part of that is Richard Haynes stating Covid is a threat to the economy. What it shows is his lack of empathy. There are many others thinking the same. Unless you save people, you have no economy anyway, grrrr.
 
I havnt been in a 'Spoons pub, since that story unfolded about the young lad who worked at the Sheraton spoons in Stockton, on a zero hour contract and got sent home cos the pub was quiet. they can fouk-right-orf...

and when this is under control and we move on, never forget these outfits.
 
Am I being naïve to ask why construction sites, aside from Hospitals etc, are classed as key work areas. Eventually the supply will dry up and no work regardless.
 
I seriously think employees will learn exactly how valued they are by their employer because of this. Those employers sacking rather than furloughing them have, mostly, in my view, made a Cold, calculated, yet hopefully stupid mistake.
An employer furloughing staff or allowing them to work from home wherever possible will be rewarded by their staff when things get back to nearer normality (whatever that becomes). I am sure such employers will find staff willing to go the extra mile for their employers as a thank you, and rightly so. They will also hopefully be remembered by the public generally and rewarded with custom by some of us who remember who did what for whom come the day of reckoning.

I will not forget the Tim Martins and Malcolm Healeys of this world and how they treated people in their hour of need. I hope for Karma for their businesses in future.
Lest we forget (y)
 
I wonder if in months/years to come in job interviews when the prospective employer asks if you have any questions how many people will ask "what did you do to protect the health, safety and livelihood of your employees during the C-19 pandemic"
 
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