Maybe they were talking sht so. Wouldn't be the first lie they told the agency staff where I worked last Christmas. I'm pretty new to the healthcare game
Essential worker working from home ? Are you serious ? There is absolutely no comparison with you and with a frontline worker working with Covid positive patients , cleaning up their bodily fluids , suctioning their airways , in close contact 12 hours a day . In PPE with masks digging into their face and bruises on their cheeks . Zipping bodies into bags , holding dieing patients hands because no one was allowed in .
Ya, essential workers could be classed as essential to the ongoing needs of society, ie food, essential items.
Frontline workers seem to be classed as those on the actual front line fighting the virus which is causing the pandemic ie hospital staff, healthcare, vaccinations etc
I normally don't have to wear the full gear but twice I had to do full PPE for a 7 day stretch of shifts and I thought it was going to kill me.
I honestly don't know how people get up and go to work every week knowing they have to put it on. The sweat alone is incredible.
No only those who were in a clinical setting ,so doctors , nurses,orderlys, porters, cleaners and heath care assistants .
Listened to various interviews about agency health care workers who were getting better paid than the normal staff and people demanding they get included ,
Well myself and all the agency staff I've met doing my job get the same pay as the HSE staff. Maybe it's different with the highly qualified staff but certainly not true of all agency staff on the Frontline.
I had to WFH and endure 2 years of Zoom calls, ffs. #where'smygrand?
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I'm just going by what was being said earlier today ,it seems to be a common complaint that agency nurses were getting paid better and had the option of dropping shifts so they don't get hammered on tax ,
I couldn't tell you what a hse nurse or agency nurses earn ,
It's not so simple.
Lots of admin staff are based in hospitals/primary care centres/health centres. Do they get it? Many healthcare assistants don't work in a clinical setting. They work in people's homes.
What about ward clerks? They sit at desks in COVID wards etc.
I wouldn't like to be trying to figure out who gets it.
Sure the welfare bonus costs 313m each year.
I'm not a big fan of this but it's going to working people. Just going to think of it as a tax break
LV all over the place on News talk now.
Ya, it doesn't particularly annoy me. It's just going to be painful listening to everyone scrapping for their piece of the pie.
Yeah agree but that is modern Ireland.
All about the greater good until there is a chance they can get money themselves.
Still better on workers than a government vanity project
I couldn't disagree more with you. "Everyone" does not know what a front line worker is. It means different things to different people. I agree that the term has been used for years but it has been ambiguous for years too.
Which is why they said frontline workers in a health care / clinical setting . Those is direct contact with Covid patients
They deserve it and good luck to them
I say that speaking as a healthcare worker who is not in line to get this.
What Christmas bonus?????
Everything from IT people to carpenters apparently will have a shout , but as we've seen with pup people on jsa very long term were able and still today getting pup ,
I think that's why they used the word clinical setting , but I wouldn't be one bit surprised if staff working from home will somehow qualify
In this thread, people confusing essential worker with front line worker.
Try two years of it! Pretty miserable experience tbh and the worst part is I don't think it'll ever actually disappear out of hospitals now, when masks are long gone for the general public I can see everyone in the hospital with full gear for the indefinite.
Those FFP2 masks are enough to warrant a grands bonus.
They are the only people who should be getting this payment imo.
I think Covid19 ward staff yes for sure
To be honest I think everyone should wear a mask in hospital and at the GP now that we are all a little wiser. Would be no harm to wear one sitting in a packed A&E or GP waiting room.
If you have been in the full plastic for 2 years fair play and no one should begrudge you that grand thats coming.
Usual public service back slapping exercise - no doubt teachers will pile in next, followed by public transport and then the whole lot like gardai will be in like Flynn.
P1sses me rightly off. I was so essential that I had to risk my health flying around Europe, staying in hotels and on offshore oil rigs for the whole of the pandemic being part of the infrastructure that made sure the lights didn't go out and the transport didn't stop moving. I had to drive for ten hours from Amsterdam to Esbjerg and back because nearly all the flights were cancelled.
What do I get? Taxed to the boll1x to pay for PS to get a €1000 bonus while I get a bloody day off I don't want or need.
I'm actually being a bit tongue in cheek there - there are no doubt vast numbers of people who were essential like myself in some way or another and we just got on with our jobs as functioning members of society asked to do a little bit more for a change.
As long as it's ONLY genuine frontline health workers (like some other poster said, cleaning up puke and pushing tubes etc) who get it I won't begrudge them it at all. But if it starts turning into a free for all for any other PS workers I won't be happy.
Does your boss never give you a bonus ?
Maybe ask him for one if they don't already.
I think I got a €100 of vouchers extra in 2020 for the whole risking my health for the nine months or so :D
Big job like that where you have to travel all over. I'de be wanting more off your boss. I was working part time in pubs and got more than that at Christmas
Christmas bonus? I'm in the HSE (and it's previous titles EHB, ERHA, NAHB etc.) for 34 years and I have never heard of anyone getting a Christmas bonus (or any bonus).
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