Home Working

Home Working

This is the New Normal 


 HOME WORKING


FIRMS TO PROVIDE WORK STATIONS AND LANDLINE / COMPUTING 

  • Firms to provide separate landline /
    super-fast broadband / computer / workstation furniture to comply with physical stress prevention in computer workstations. 

  • Research bringing superfast broadband to every rural area of UK and remote inhabited islands. 


RIGHT TO DISCONNECT 

  • Home working, teleworking by computer, enhance right to disconnect, so workers entitled to switch off from work and not engage in digitally enabled communications outside of normal working hours,
    including emails, telephone calls and other messages. 

  • Not working beyond the normal working day.
    This is already law in southern Ireland (Eire) since 1 April 2021. 

  • Right to disconnect to include when away from work on paid annual leave. 

RIGHT TO TOILET BREAKS
WHENEVER NEEDED 
  • Right to log out, and go to the toilet during work hours. 

BRITISH JOBS (all races) 

  • Jobs first offered to British residents and only when no-one suitable found offer job to worker from abroad now resident in UK, who will be paid the same as British worker and must join the appropriate British trade union for the job. 


AGENCY WORKERS 
  • Ban umbrella companies, which dock agency workers’ wages and deny their holiday days. 

      • An umbrella company is essentially a payroll company, used by recruitment agencies to operate a PAYE
        (pay-as-you-earn) system for the agency workers that they find work for.

        In many cases, the umbrella company will also employ the agency worker, with the agency workers becoming “employees” of the umbrella company.


WORK HOUR RIGHTS 

  • 4 day working week, 28 hours week, same pay as was 5 day, 37-40 hour week. 

  • 6 hour full-time working day (plus 1 hour unpaid lunch break), same pay as was 8 hour day. Concessionary tea breaks paid. Helps get more jobs. 

  • Equal rights from first day of work, whether full or part time, temporary or permanent.
     
  • Ban Zero-hour contracts. Instead guaranteeing number of hours each week and not wildly changing shift patterns, so get Work Life Balance. 

  • Make regular contract for all hours worked, for workers on short hours contracts (but who regularly work far more hours) after working in that job for 12 weeks. Helps get more employment. 

  • Overtime from 7 hours to 11 hours, not more, in a working day. Following day a rest day. 

  • Shifts not to vary, but set for weeks in advance. 

  • Pregnant ladies and people aged over 50 not to do shifts nor night working. 

  • Flexible working becomes norm, ie work start 8am, 9am or 10am and end of work day between 3pm, 4pm and 5pm, to help in school run and elder / disabled family care.


MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE 

  • Raise Minimum Wage to £15 per hour from age 16 upwards.
    (Affordable as boss’s National Insurance contributions reduced to 10 per cent from 13.8 per cent as now by Over 50s party government). 


BEREAVEMENT PAID LEAVE
  • Statutory bereavement paid leave for loss of close family members. 


HELP TELEWORKING 

  • Make home working the norm, to cut down emissions from commuter car and diesel train emissions. 

  • Bring ultra fast broadband to every corner of the land, utilising the National Infrastructure Commission. 

  • Firms doing home working should pay for super fast broadband account connected to specific works computer with proper health and safety desk and chair and lighting in a specific room. 

  • Expand provision of free public wi-fi in city centres and on public transport. 

  • Improve 4G coverage. 

  • Research to end 5G cutting down mature woodland to get coverage. No tree will be felled to gain 5G. 


SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR 

  • Deal with addiction to mobile phones, of dangerous behaviour of walking along without looking about you, eyes glued down on your mobile phone, constantly swiping the screen (so endangering repetitive strain syndrome to hands, losing the use of fingers) and ageing eyes faster by viewing back glare of screens. 
Perhaps work together with television soaps watched by young people and with the pop music industry.  


  
CARRINGTON EVENT 

In 1859, the British astronomer Richard Carrington witnessed the megaflare of biggest solar storm of solar winds emitted from the sun that reaches earth causing geomagnetic disturbances. 

If such a megaflare happened today, the world’s high-tech infrastructure would grind to a halt. 

Global positioning systems (GPS) would be effected in cell phones, airplanes and motor vehicles. 

Satellite communications would be at risk. For example, this would effect getting petrol from the petrol pump, as your credit card payment is a satellite transaction. So petrol stations need to be able to also keep cash payment. 

The electrical grid could suffer blow out of giant transformers, by power surges caused by solar particles. These could take some time to replace. 

To build back better power grid (after being nationalised) so is less vulnerable to solar disruptions. 

Better space weather forecasting of these solar events, as it takes about 20 hours for damaging emissions of big solar storms to reach earth, gives times for UK nationalised power company to take the transformers offline before the storm strikes, producing local blackouts, but these storms tend to pass after a couple of hours. (Source National Geographic). 


NOT GET RID OF LANDLINE PHONES 

  • Forbid Ofcom / Openreach / Telecoms industry from ending landline phones, and replacing with having internet to make a phone call using fibre broadband network. 

In power outages, your internet would not be working and so you could not call emergency services with your landline. 

Your mobile needs recharging, so that could be out of action, in a blackout as well. 

By having a landline, can also keep in contact with boss during work time and potential customers, in case of power outages. 

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