I'm ever so sorry to Croydonain but I broke the rules and read the press release. It seems the TUC has published a press release on their public website stating that there is a press embargo on it. The press release is promoting a Work your proper hours day which is on Friday.
Apparently this Friday (23 Feb 2007) "is the day when the average person who does unpaid overtime finishes the unpaid days they do every year, and starts earning for themselves."
Hate to ruin it for them, but the day we start earning for ourselves is Tax Freedom Day, which has got later and later each year under Gordon Brown's maladministration of the economy and is currently about June 3rd according to the Adam Smith Institute.
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that the TUC thinks we start earning money for ourselves in February, or that they put an embargo on a press release they published on the publicly accessible Internet.
Update: Looks like the TUC have deleted the press release. I wonder, if the press offcier gets fired, will the TUC represent them against their employer?
8 comments:
Great idea you have already read it, and advertised it ,virii anyone
http://www.tuc.org.uk/work_life/tuc-12966-f0.cfm
"Sorry, this document has been removed"
hahahah... have to laugh really. I don't understand the point of the campaign anyway. Doesn't everyone work their proepr hours?
"Doesn't everyone work their proper hours?"
I suppose you could argue that Ruth Turner is accused of working improper hours...
The sad thing is, when I heard about 'work your proper hours day' last year I genuinely thought it was a campaign against skiving off early.
Gotta love life in the public sector.
;-D
It means that you don't do any unpaid overtime on that day.
That is how my union and employer are promoting it.
what sort of fool does unpaid overtime?
...the sort of foolish young professional who wants to make partner one day?
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