Outrage as town raises £3,000 to give beloved street cleaner the holiday of a lifetime but his bosses say he CAN’T have the money
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13734699/Villagers-cleaner-holiday-lifetime-bosses-money.html
Posted by High-Tom-Titty
17 Comments
Makes no sense.
How can an employer stop someone receiving gifts? If the person who started the go fund me just gives it to him outside of work, what on earth does it have to do with Veolia?
It’s nonsense, he needs to be in a position of power over others or has the ability to influence decision-making in the running of the council. Easy win for any half decent lawyer.
Unless you’re a politician it’s generally frowned on for public servents to accept gifts from the public.
Doesn’t set a good example, and you have to treat everyone with the same rules or it isn’t fair.
Managers would spend all their time in endless meetings otherwise if they didn’t have pre-agreed policies to point at. I’ve just gone through this process in our business.
Sounds like someone needs to give him a job so he can quit his current one.
The practical answer is to return the money to each giver and then they can give it to him in small amounts.
Give it to his wife or family member then and let them take him along
Local waste disposal agent in my area was fired by the council for taking under the table payments for off the books garden clearances. That’s one example I can think of as to why they don’t allow gifts
Fucking hell. Blocked this poor guy from a gift from the community but I bet Veolia upper management all take thousands or millions in bonuses. Shocking.
I used to do care work for the local council, and we weren’t supposed to accept any gifts.
I had a good relationship with one client, who had been on a psychiatric ward and was having trouble coping at home. She improved and said it was partially down to me- on my last visit she gave me an African Violet she potted up for me.
The next day my boss made me go back and return it.
Do a raffle then give the money to the holder of the only ticket that was sold.
Genuinely – this hammered home to anyone working or contracted to work for a Council. If I receive more than a Calendar or a Pen (or something negligible like that) audit would be up my ass and I’d be getting hung and stoned in the Local Town Square (and at best being “asked” to formally donate it to the Mayors Charity). At this point I don’t even bother when anyone ever asks. In the past I’ve paid for my own cup of tea and cake when out with Contractors so it cannot be leveraged against me despite their instance they would pay. For what it’s worth I’m not management and have spent multiple days with audit (someone else’s fuckup and no fault found against me). It’s just a fact of life. In this day and age – right decision as you know there is at least one obnoxious cunt with a grudge in the area that would have hung the Binman for it, Veolia and the Council. Ironically they’ve probably saved his job here.
Sounds like someone needs to give a £3000 dinner speech. That’s how the politicians do it, right? By being such interesting people that after they leave office people pay thousands to have their dinner ruined by them?
Our policy is that any gift over the value of £100 should be declared, not that it has to be. It’s only an advisory due to anti bribery and corruption.
When I worked in local government we weren’t allowed to accept gifts.
“Our contract with Bromley Council does not permit our staff to accept any monies or incentives outside of agreed pay structures”
He’s not accepting monies, and how can it be an incentive if it’s after the fact and he wasn’t aware of it until it was done..
How is it bribery when the guy is doing his job already. He won’t make any critical business decisions
What if – while cleaning the street – he discovered a plane ticket, hotel booking and traveller’s cheques? He’d have to hand it in at a police station, but after a certain amount of time they’d be his, no?