Dr Rant's employer is now insisting on taking the cost of a 1st class Royal Mail stamp out of all the hospital staff's paychecks each month to pay for posting the salary slips to them at their home address.
Presumably this efficiency saving is needed to pay for the cost of the four page glossy propogandamag that they post to us each month for free.
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Is this optional, can you save the money if they send your payslip to your place of work? Can't see how it's legal otherwise. They are legally required to supply you with a payslip before your cash arrives at the bank.
It's the start of November, not the start of April
Lunacy.
I wonder if the cost of setting up the payroll software to deduct and account for this was greater than the revenue raised from the deductions.
F****** Hell !
How many Managers' salaries did it take to dream up that one?
I can't see why they don't send it to your hospital mailbox -- aka pigeon-hole (stupid glossy brochure, ditto).
if the cost of setting up the payroll software to deduct and account for this was greater than the revenue raised from the deductions.
probably
Pidgeon Holes have long since gone - health and safety you know - risk of psittacosis from the pidgeon droppings apparently.
Sorry for the strange goings on if you can read this, Blogger is playing up at the moment.
I'm confused, Ranty. I thought you were a slf-employed GP so what's all this "payslips" thing??
Ranty takes many forms, anonymous :)
'Ranty', like many GPs may or may not have a one or two sessions per week job working in a hospital clinic alongside a consultant as a 'clinical assistant'.
Instead of playing golf on an afternoon off.
The Witch Doctor is getting scared.
Scared because it is now impossible to work out when bizarre reports like the stamp story are a wind-up and when they are deadly serious!
Even The Book of Spells isn't much help with this.
Organise the staff to go in person to human resources to pick up their payslips in person. If enough people do it, the system will grind to a halt and the decision will be reversed.
I would think the story is true,
One hospital i worked in asked all the staff to agree to a delay in when the wages were paid each month. This would have made the trust bout £40K in interest a year on the account from the money being their a bit longer.
The outgoing CE who left after running the place into the ground was then awarded a £40K leaving bonus.
I wonder if they tried to get the extra money just for that...
I don't think staff agreed to wait till the middle of the month to be paid.
The thing is, anonymous, it's stupid enough to be true...
This would have made the trust bout £40K in interest a year
universities have been known to hang on to pay award money for a little while, for the same kind of reason.
Let them have the stamp money providing they pay a 'fair' wage for the type of work and hours you do which is not the case of course.
jayann, i don't have a massive problem with the trust trying to make some extra cash to put into the hospital...i loose all the motivation to help when it's found out £40K is going to a CE anyway...
anonymous, I agree entirely.
anonymous sorry, that was a bit brusque. I don't think behaviour like that is OK unless it's selectively applied so the higher-paid employees bear the brunt. In the case you cite, the behaviour was outrageous. In the case of the universities, it was outrageos because part-covert ('cheque in the post...'). I am rather glad the staff at your place said no.
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