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Personally, I would say yes. However, nothing in HR is ever that black and white so you would need to refer to specific terms in the contract. You also need to consider length of service. If person A has less than 2 years service (at the end of the 6 month secondment) then they don't have a leg to stand on anyway. If its pretty much certain that there will be other work available at the end of the six months, I'd say there shouldn't be an issue. I wouldn't expect that Post 1 would be an option - unless the company is planning on getting rid of person B if they have less than 2 years service (although it's unlikely if the client doesn't want Person A!). The contract would be general terms and conditions anyway so there would be no need for a new one to be issued to Person A - it would also have a clause in there about carrying out any work to be deemed 'suitable' by the company anyway.

How are we getting on, can we declare racism extinct now?

What a lovely warming story! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-55560814 Sounds like the police were there waiting for people to arrive so they could fine them. I thought that fines were to be used for people once police had followed the previous three E's : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52106843

Oh, no he wasn't! There was absolutely no violence involved when soggy was supporting it!

I know it's the Sun, but they claim he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, then collapsed at the police station later on.... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13683669/us-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-dies-riot/

Was the person that was moved a 'permanent' employee or a contractor. If contractor, then tough! If permanent employee then it's more complicated. How much time served in the company? If under two years, then tough. If over two years then there would need to be a consultation. The original role would be deemed to be no longer existing in this case as it has been filled by someone else. As long as a full consultation took place with all alternatives within the company considered - including other locations within a reasonable travelling distance as well as other roles with equal or less status and remuneration - then redundancy could well be a legitimate option. There must have been some sort of consultation previously for the person who was moved to have been moved - presumably the client request was a result of conduct or performance. I'm fairly certain that 'accepting' the move would be a legitimate reason for the employer to 'backfill' the role that was moved from - even if the alternative to accepting the role would have been dismissal on either conduct or performance basis.

There was lots of noise there and I could hear someone near the camera shouting 'they've got guns' but I couldn't hear the clear warnings that were ignored. Any idea what time during the video they were made?

Lol. Don't recall you saying the same thing when protesters marched through London in the summer. Plenty of warnings given to them way before the event took place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55227325 30 days later and we've managed a mere 1.3mil vaccinations. How the fuck are we going to get to 2mil per week?

Looks like the tier 2 decision has worked out well then.

Definitely nothing fishy going on here, merely an administrative error! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55555466

If we get to the magical 2mil doses per week by the end of the 12 weeks (or even sooner), unless we can somehow manage to increase that by another 50% (for example) to 3mil per week, then there won't be any 'new' patients being vaccinated as the capacity will be used to give the 'old' patients their second dose.

Another complete fuck up around implementation! Looks like they have copied and pasted tier 4 regulations but not bothered to check if they are right or they really have no clue what they want to implement. In terms of shopping, you can only leave the house for 'essential' shopping and all 'non-essential' shops MUST close. However, non-essential shops can offer a click and collect service. So you can order a pair of slippers online and then head off to your local 'Next' to go and fetch them! How is that 'essential'? https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/949536/NationalLockdownGuidance.pdf I'm assuming the 'click and collect' bit is left in from tier 4 and they just haven't bothered to update it.

Define 'threat'.

Define 'threat'. I'd suggest a virus that has killed over 30 million people had the 'potential' to kill many more.

I've never claimed they did, have I? Does a threat need to shut down businesses or put people on furlough to still be a threat - it's a rhetorical question you fuckwit, no need to answer. The point is - which once again you've managed to miss, quite spectacularly - that there have been other 'threats' and Covid isn't the 'biggest threat' since WW2 as Soggy claimed. Guess what though, those other 'threats' had either a preventative measure or a treatment that stopped them from killing thousands of people, but left unchecked / untreated they COULD have caused as many, if not more, deaths than Covid. That's how 'threats' are defined.

A 'threat' doesn't need to kill 500+ people per day to be classified a 'threat'.

Source?

Obviously that is true if you discount smallpox, AIDS and seasonal 'Flu and pretend that none of these have been a threat since WW2. Other than that, completely factually correct.

From an education point of view, yes and you'd have no complaints from me. I'm sure there would be plenty of families moaning about the loss of their summer holidays though!

It's a juggling act. There are knock on effects to every single decision. Risks need to be evaluated, but no decision is ever going to make everyone happy and no decision is going to be 100% right.

I imagine the hospitality industry wouldn't be too pleased either! They're probably looking forward to earning some money next summer during the school holidays!

Ah I see. So your suggestion is that we have a full lockdown from January until September. That sounds practical. Back to my previous question, who is going to pay for it, genius?

And to be fair, that works in tier four areas which are full lockdown in all but name. To do the same in tier three (as the unions are suggesting) would be very different.

Go for it, enlighten us as to what they are....