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#91

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Bauer - Today at 10:25:40 AM

Steven Guilbeault resigns from Mark Carney's cabinet

Danielle Smith is doing her happy dance right now.

Steven Guilbeault resigns from Mark Carney's cabinet

Danielle Smith is doing her happy dance right now.

For now, but if a pipeline does get built it will have to include carbon capture, industrial carbon pricing, First Nation consultation, and be private financed.

I feel like the deal might turn out to be a political maneuver where the ball is in AB court now to figure out how to solve the big problems.  Which is how it should have been all along.  You want a pipeline here's how you have to do it...

#92

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:17:01 AM

From the Guardian.  Go there if you want to see the video.

Video of an Israeli military raid in the West Bank shows soldiers summarily executing two Palestinians they had detained seconds earlier.

The shooting on Thursday evening, which was also witnessed by journalists close to the scene, is under justice ministry review, but has already been defended by Israel's far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who declared that "terrorists must die".

#93

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by garbon - Today at 09:36:37 AM

I don't know. I'm thinking how it lines up for different jobs.
If someone has moved to a new country for work and then gets fired a fortnight in for no good reason.... then that's pretty shit.

If the company was at all involved in getting their visa, then that's incredibly unlikely. Company not liable to spend money just to quickly toss someone out.

At the same time if someone is hired and turns up and is clearly an absolute incompetent mess...that's also not good.

Yeah and may not know that even at day one but only a little bit further in

Where we are now we already have a distinction between probation rights and regular rights, I took this talk of reform as making it so people on probation do at least have some rights. They have to actually do something sacking worthy, not be good enough after the fixed time period, not just....catch the boss on a bad day.

Actually from my understanding, passing probabtion doesn't actually confer any rights? People are still easily sackable until they have been in a role for 2 years. Before that you can easily dispense with them even if passed 'probation'. My thinking was that if now that 2 years moves down to 6 months then at least it lines up with many probation periods and actually means passing probation is a meaningful step to securing rights.

Outside the box thought just came to me- Possible round about way to encourage hiring locals rather than bringing people in from the outside? More immediate rights for people who've had to relocate for work?

Isn't there already a lot being done to discourage international labour? Not sure this would be needed.

On the positive, sensible move on stautory sick pack from day 1 as it isn't like you can tell your body don't get sick when you first start working as you have no sick leave.

[A week or two would seem rational.]

#94

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 08:32:29 AM

Day one did seem a bit too far. Though shame they couldn't bring it down from 6 months, thats much too long. A week or two would seem rational.

Would it? I, of course, can only speak from office work. While I have some sense of my employees in the first week or two of employment, I generally am spending a lot of time then training them so I don't have enough to go on usually to assess whether or not they will competently carry out their duties. That usually takes about a month.

At 6 months, I think that lines up with what many people have as a 'probation' period. Feels about right that probation and statuatory rights line up...vs. right now it has always be a fiction as a company can let you pass probation and then quickly fire you given you are still under 2 years.

I don't know. I'm thinking how it lines up for different jobs.
If someone has moved to a new country for work and then gets fired a fortnight in for no good reason.... then that's pretty shit.
At the same time if someone is hired and turns up and is clearly an absolute incompetent mess...that's also not good.

Where we are now we already have a distinction between probation rights and regular rights, I took this talk of reform as making it so people on probation do at least have some rights. They have to actually do something sacking worthy, not be good enough after the fixed time period, not just....catch the boss on a bad day.

Outside the box thought just came to me- Possible round about way to encourage hiring locals rather than bringing people in from the outside? More immediate rights for people who've had to relocate for work?

#95

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Syt - Today at 08:26:23 AM

Always strikes me odd that the government bangs on about Christian values and completely ignores e.g. Matthew 25:

31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

40 "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'

41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45 "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

#96

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 08:10:06 AM

#97

Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:46:55 AM

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOZuwlzDrDG/?igsh=MTI5d3gybHg1Zm00Yg==

The mayor of New York, actually he has some pretty good soccer skills. A sentence I never thought I would ever say.  And he's taking a run at FIFA.  Let's not to like?

#98

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Savonarola - Today at 07:13:53 AM

Good luck, non-WASPs.

Keeping refugees out of the country is a beautiful way to celebrate the true meaning of Thanksgiving.   


 

(Yes, I realize that the Pilgrims didn't actually come to Plymouth to escape religious intolerance (they were more trying to escape religious tolerance in the Netherlands) and that not everyone who sailed on the Mayflower was a puritan.  MAGA, as near as I understand them, accepts a mythological view of history and yesterday should have been a day for them to celebrate tolerance and refugees; they could go back to hating those things today.)

[A week or two would seem rational.]

#99

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by garbon - Today at 07:00:30 AM

Day one did seem a bit too far. Though shame they couldn't bring it down from 6 months, thats much too long. A week or two would seem rational.

Would it? I, of course, can only speak from office work. While I have some sense of my employees in the first week or two of employment, I generally am spending a lot of time then training them so I don't have enough to go on usually to assess whether or not they will competently carry out their duties. That usually takes about a month.

At 6 months, I think that lines up with what many people have as a 'probation' period. Feels about right that probation and statuatory rights line up...vs. right now it has always be a fiction as a company can let you pass probation and then quickly fire you given you are still under 2 years.

#100

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 06:53:15 AM

It's a gamble there too. We could disallow potash export to the US at any moment.

There is a certainty that without the expansion of a terminal and the rail capacity to get their product to the terminal, they will not be able to ship their product to market. Balancing that against the unlikely event that Canada will ban potash to it's number one market seems less like a gamble and much more like a sensible business decision.