Contracting Out

[drplokta]

Looks like any remaining in-house cleaning contracts in the Civil Service and NHS are getting contracted out, pronto. David Cameron plans to pay managers more if they can get all of their low-paid staff off their organisation's payroll and onto someone else's.

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I recall an interview on PM with a former cleaning manager some years ago saying that she retired when they started asking her to clean wards in time periods she knew damn well couldn't be done.

That's not to say contracting out _couldn't_ be done properly. You implement an SLA on the contractors and higher somebody from one of the mobile network operators to enforce it.

Then, in other news, Daily Mail headlines - NHS using illegal workers in cleaning scam....

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

It might be illuminating to look at the ownership of the contractors and their relationship with those responsible for the allocation of contracts.

Typical Daily Mail headline, no reference to it being contractors using 'illegal workers' rather than the NHS, or that the dodgy contractors are paying less than legal wages as they do so often in the equally corrupt agricultural gang master system.