Recently a councillor at Leicestershire County Council has been layed off for offering his workers a fully paid afternoon off to do their Christmas shopping.
The Cabinet member, Mr Kevin Feltham apparently claimed that the concept was ‘to prevent staff from skiving off’ to do Christmas shopping. His comments have apparently annoyed staff and caused upset.
The irony of this is that private firms have been giving people paid afternoons to do their christmas shopping for the last 5-10 years. Their staff have certainly not been upset, quite the opposite, they have been jumping at the chance.
Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Fraser
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