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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on September 26, 2019, 11:39:54 am

Title: are you sitting down jack
Post by: john m on September 26, 2019, 11:39:54 am
Ireland will join an international campaign for a four-day working week today.

The '4-Day Week Ireland' group is the homegrown leg of an international coalition of unions, business, environmental and women's groups who are promoting the benefits of a shorter working week.

It follows the British Labour Party's recent commitment to campaign to reduce the working week to four days.

Among those addressing the campaign launch in Dublin is Andrew Barnes, founder of New Zealand financial advice company Perpetual Guardian, which rolled out a four-day week for its 250 staff last year. They work four eight-hour days but get paid for five. Galway firm ICE has also introduced a four-day week.

Labour spokesperson on employment and social protection Ged Nash called for an expert group on extending a shorter working week here.

The senator said workers are being made to feel like they are expected to be constantly available to their employer due to new technologies.

"We have to look again at our working time laws and how we can ensure working people work to live, rather than merely live to work," he said.
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: stonethecrows on September 26, 2019, 11:41:47 am
Cut the working week to 4 day , then surely you must cut the Pay to 4/5ths of your original salary, would mean less disposable income !!
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Jack Meoff on September 26, 2019, 11:45:50 am
I think der is not enough hours in the day.
Should increase the day from 24 to 36 hours
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: stonethecrows on September 26, 2019, 11:49:20 am
4 pints instead of 5 when you go out !
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Jack Meoff on September 26, 2019, 11:56:35 am
4 pints instead of 5 when you go out !

Wouldn’t be worth your while going out for 4 pints
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Shallowhal on September 26, 2019, 12:02:13 pm
4 pints instead of 5 when you go out !

Wouldn’t be worth your while going out for 4 pints

Have a few chasers aswell.
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Jack Meoff on September 26, 2019, 12:07:26 pm
Some of the polish poteen that’s going around Cork
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Tony on September 26, 2019, 12:45:16 pm
Some of the polish  kens poteen that’s going around Cork


Fixed yer post
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Jack Meoff on September 26, 2019, 01:14:15 pm
Classic hits on about the 4 day week now
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Octavia1 on September 26, 2019, 01:23:26 pm
If everybody did 2 day week then they'd all have half the money's that they wud if everybody did a four day week which wud mean that the prices for everything wud have to be reduced by half so it wud all even out in the end ...and people wud have alot more time to spend ther money and so stimulate the economy and weed all be better off.....
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Shallowhal on September 26, 2019, 02:03:53 pm
But Octy...we could say we're only working two days but work four...prices would drop and we'd be brazillianaires!!
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: cruiser on September 26, 2019, 02:07:29 pm
More double jobbers   >:( >:(
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: dalymount on September 26, 2019, 06:01:59 pm
I think what's proposed is to work 10 hours a day for 4 days,rather then 8 hours a day for 5 days,so no shortening of the hours worked just a change to when you work them
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Octavia1 on September 26, 2019, 06:23:42 pm
Ther was an owlone on the radio manager of a company that
Banned Monday working so they all wer more productive the other days and made more stuff an money as a result and wer less stressed and better off......and they all went out together to bingo on a friday or something an wer even havin it off wit each other cause it was so nice job......
alas wit ireland bein sold to America by the indian cnut in kildare street .....yur grandkids be slaves 1984 style.....
An will wish they wer never born ....

Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: dalymount on September 26, 2019, 06:54:36 pm
Talking about companies wanting their employees to be more alert, and more productive isn't it strange that their rep organization IBEC never called on the government to outlaw double jobbing considering the employee is bound to be fatigued having worked at ( say ) taxi driving the weekend, and cannot produce his best performance. What's even stranger is that the ICTU have not sought to outlaw it either, considering a fundamental principle of the trade union movement is one man one job
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Shallowhal on September 26, 2019, 08:32:42 pm
Sure they did fukall about yer man driving the bus....two jobs driving the public around supposedly in a safe manner,the hours he drives a bus are monitored but driving a joe?
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: stonethecrows on September 26, 2019, 08:46:51 pm
do most of then cnuts in Kildare street not have there fingers in 2 pies ?
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Octavia1 on September 26, 2019, 09:04:06 pm
Talking about companies wanting their employees to be more alert, and more productive isn't it strange that their rep organization IBEC never called on the government to outlaw double jobbing considering the employee is bound to be fatigued having worked at ( say ) taxi driving the weekend, and cannot produce his best performance. What's even stranger is that the ICTU have not sought to outlaw it either, considering a fundamental principle of the trade union movement is one man one job
I tink the state companies banned it .......remember the immigrant that was sacked drivin a  Dublin bus 60 hours a week an drivin taxi after work ...an primetime or sumtin doune an investigative programme or sumtin.....I dont know how they get the energy from....I'm fuked doing a 20 hour week..... ::sleep

Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: dalymount on September 26, 2019, 09:07:54 pm
Ah Kennedy. That was his first name btw. I don't think he got sacked though, ocky
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Shallowhal on September 26, 2019, 09:58:22 pm
Ah Kennedy. That was his first name btw. I don't think he got sacked though, ocky

He didn't.
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: stonethecrows on September 27, 2019, 08:54:29 am
It's like peeing against the wind
Title: Re: are you sitting down jack
Post by: Rat Catcher on September 27, 2019, 03:55:34 pm
Free Now is great for double jobbers. While full time professionals that need the job to feed their families anall pay up too four times the freight they used to pay Irish dispatch firms the part-timers pay less than the equivalent of one week's freight.