Leg Iron posts on the fact that although 18 people died of C.Diff at a Scottish hospital, nobody is called to account.
In the case I would like to put forward a woman who sued Slough council for libel after she was labelled 'potentially violent' for daring to complain strongly about the way she was treated when trying to report ant-social behaviour to the councils anti-social behaviour officer .
It's libel because they entered her on a so called 'Violent Persons Register' and disseminated an email informing people of such. This 'Violent Persons Register' is nothing to do with the police or any previous criminal acts. Purely if a council officer believes someone has been 'violent' towards them by either word or deed, they can be placed on this register and I assume find great difficulty in accessing council services from then on. As we all now know the old adage 'words will never hurt me' no longer applies and even a manager telling an employee that they have done a job wrong can be considered bullying, if care is not taken to protect the little flowers feelings ( I know first hand)
So she sued and won, the council has to pay her £14,000 damages and all the costs, the judge has also said a further £50,000 must be set aside to cover any appeals.
So the council has to pay, not the manager, not the anti-social behaviour rep, the council.
But the council has no money of it's own only what it gets from the local council taxpayer. So in fact it is the council taxpayer who is losing out to the tune of probably £100,000 in services they have already paid for.
Where is the accountability? I have only ever worked in the private sector, but I know that even if my company backed me in court, should a guilty verdict be returned against the company, that would be considered gross misconduct as I would have acted or condoned an act considered now illegal. My feet would not touch the ground.
But what will happen to these snivelling jobsworths, I would bet the precise measure of FUCK ALL, and the ability to go on fucking up other peoples lives once 'lessons had been learned'
I have often wondered why councils let these cases go on to court, when surely they take legal advice that tells them that they haven't got a hope, I used to think it was a robust defence of their employees.
But now I realise, when you're playing and paying with Other Peoples Money. Win or Lose you never lose.
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In the case I would like to put forward a woman who sued Slough council for libel after she was labelled 'potentially violent' for daring to complain strongly about the way she was treated when trying to report ant-social behaviour to the councils anti-social behaviour officer .
It's libel because they entered her on a so called 'Violent Persons Register' and disseminated an email informing people of such. This 'Violent Persons Register' is nothing to do with the police or any previous criminal acts. Purely if a council officer believes someone has been 'violent' towards them by either word or deed, they can be placed on this register and I assume find great difficulty in accessing council services from then on. As we all now know the old adage 'words will never hurt me' no longer applies and even a manager telling an employee that they have done a job wrong can be considered bullying, if care is not taken to protect the little flowers feelings ( I know first hand)
So she sued and won, the council has to pay her £14,000 damages and all the costs, the judge has also said a further £50,000 must be set aside to cover any appeals.
So the council has to pay, not the manager, not the anti-social behaviour rep, the council.
But the council has no money of it's own only what it gets from the local council taxpayer. So in fact it is the council taxpayer who is losing out to the tune of probably £100,000 in services they have already paid for.
Where is the accountability? I have only ever worked in the private sector, but I know that even if my company backed me in court, should a guilty verdict be returned against the company, that would be considered gross misconduct as I would have acted or condoned an act considered now illegal. My feet would not touch the ground.
But what will happen to these snivelling jobsworths, I would bet the precise measure of FUCK ALL, and the ability to go on fucking up other peoples lives once 'lessons had been learned'
I have often wondered why councils let these cases go on to court, when surely they take legal advice that tells them that they haven't got a hope, I used to think it was a robust defence of their employees.
But now I realise, when you're playing and paying with Other Peoples Money. Win or Lose you never lose.
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These bureaucrats have lost all sense of reality.
ReplyDeleteIf ever the 'civil' service needed a cull (in more ways than one), it is now.