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Revenue staff get paid to eat Xmas dinner!

goodie2shoes · 2012-11-05 14:22:16

i've been saying for quite some time that we live in a banana republic, but this sort of thing belongs to Mugabe's Zimbabwe. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/revenue-staff-get-paid-to-eat-christmas-lunch-3282204.html

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#182 05-11-2012 8:57pm
dvpower

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Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Does anyone think that giving staff a day off (or flexitime leave) even if they wern't due to work the day of the xmas booze up is wrong. . thats what is happening here.

No it isn't.

4.5 hours flexi credit.

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#183 05-11-2012 9:04pm
talla10

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There would be a very different reaction if Gardai were getting paid to eat lunch!!

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#184 05-11-2012 9:08pm
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Fr_Dougal wrote: »

No, they can expense costs and get a full reimbursement because it's happening during working hours. If it happened outside of working hours they would not be able to expense it.

No they can't. You are peddling shit.

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#185 05-11-2012 9:11pm
dr.bollocko

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This is not going anywhere good.

In my humble opinion the indo is a cesspit of a paper and best off ignored.

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