[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Cherie

All the big supermarkets should be doing that, they made an absolute fortune during lockdown

They should indeed and you are right, they were raking it in both before and during it.

It would be nice if they looked again too at returning the contracts to staff in some supermarkets.
Back to the 25+ hours ones after a few years ago reducing guaranteed hours to only 16 hours a week too.

In recognition of the staffs efforts during this nightmare.

[Liam-]

[Livia]

As far as the NHS is concerned they should be paid a salary reflecting their worth in the first place, something successive governments have failed to do.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

As far as the NHS is concerned they should be paid a salary reflecting their worth in the first place, something successive governments have failed to do.

I agree, the salaries that trained nurses for example are paid are a joke compared to other countries. The US is the most striking example, in California an experienced nurse will be getting 6-figures ($110k average) . Though that's because they're employed privately/the US insurange model fleecing everyone, so not the best example. Still, several places in Europe it's around 60,000 euros for an experience level where an NHS nurse will be on £30 - 40k. Better paid in Australia, NZ... pretty much every 1st-world country.

[Nicky91]

of course Essential workers deserve bonusses

i'd also say give some a medal especially those who had been in frontline, at NHS for example in UK, other hospital workers in other countries too


no here in Netherlands they decided to give one comedian (she is on our radio every saturday, i mean she does not deserve a medal, since i find her quite hypocrite, for example she tells people ''stay home'' and she herself just goes to every store she can find, even has her own theatre shows again, above 140 people (which exceeds 100 people limit) but she is allowed bc miss is seen as a hero)


my point is if she gets a medal, praise, then the real essential workers also do deserve something, some bonus, praise, respect by the people

[Cal.]

Yes