Paid to stay home!

[maen]

Speaking to an electrian out on call today. He mentioned he is the only person in his company on call as the all the other employees are being paid to stay home. How many Farmers would take that option given the chance?

 

[vantage]

Irrelevant as most at home anyway.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Currently spreading sh!t at home...so if they want to pay me to continue I’ll happy accept

 

[Nearly]

We've chatted about this at home and we're ok. Nothing we need to sell, enough materials for catching up on jobs for a month or two.
Son and daughter at home.
One holiday cottage has become a long term rental by another tenant's son.
We make sod all on paper anyway, so our monthly takings wouldn't keep a family in iphones and netflix.

We, and our kids, will finish up paying it back though for decades to come.
I hope we're here to do so.

 

[betweenthelines]

Not being paid to "stay home"

Being supported to ensure they don't suffer financially while they follow best advice on how to help reduce the number of deaths during a major health crisis.

Farmers need to remember how lucky they are, being able to work and trade pretty much as normal. 95% of the population wish they were as lucky.

 

[Weasel]

Irrelevant as most at home anyway.

Not sitting doing nothing and getting paid though. Big difference numpty

 

[Storeman]

Finished up at work today , we are classed as an essential business but most of our parts suppliers have closed so we would be unable to carry out repairs.
Spent the week since Monday getting any vehicle in the workshop finished and back to the owner. Left with a couple that can't be completed due to lack of parts, they will have to wait until things start to return to normal and we can get hold of parts.
Very strange this morning driving vehicles back to the owners, felt a bit surreal with the roads so empty.
Now at home on 80% pay until further notice.

 

[grainboy]

But this 80% which will be taxed, has to initially come from the employer, then claimed from the government, with the benefit system gone into met down, surely the same will happen when employers start claiming. If there is then an overrun on payment, are employers going to pay out the next month,
How long before employers call time !!!

 

[How much]

Well I don't honestly think there is any other way other than what the government has done unless they where prepared to have 25 million or more people out of work pretty much overnight with the theft and lawlessness that would potentially go with such a huge figure of un-employment.
I'm sure there are some who are happy to sit wrapped in duvet watching crap on tv or spouting tosh on social media but I'm also pretty sure most would far rather be at work .
quite how the debt can be repaid or if it even needs to be repaid I don't know but emerging from this current situation will be hard enough allot of business will fail , allot wont re open at all and un-employment will increase but from a standing start the country is in much better position to recover quickly if people are still at least employed as they are with the current arrangement .

 

[Doing it for the kids]

? exactly.

plenty here having a go but what are the alternatives?

the Novelty if being stuck at home will soon wear off for most

 

[Wombat]

? exactly.

plenty here having a go but what are the alternatives?

the Novelty if being stuck at home will soon wear off for most

It wore off here Tuesday stuck at home looking after the kids rather than drilling

 

[Bogweevil]

Speaking to an electrian out on call today. He mentioned he is the only person in his company on call as the all the other employees are being paid to stay home. How many Farmers would take that option given the chance?

Lucky I can stay home to work - beats the alternatives (though it may come to that).

 

[Scribus]

But this 80% which will be taxed, has to initially come from the employer, then claimed from the government, with the benefit system gone into met down, surely the same will happen when employers start claiming. If there is then an overrun on payment, are employers going to pay out the next month,
How long before employers call time !!!

Fraud will be rife.

 

[Yale]

Fraud will be rife.

What are the gov doing in Eire?

 

[grainboy]

Why ?
will based on Paye details,

 

[Scribus]

What are the gov doing in Eire?

Much the same as you re retailers and sports fixtures etc, but no mention of locking people in their homes. More here -

Student nurses will be paid during Covid-19 crisis

Minister for Health Simon Harris has announced that student nurses will be paid for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis.

www.rte.ie

 

[Scribus]

Why ?
will based on Paye details,

When governments are dishing out money willy nilly there will be those happy to take devious advantage of it.

 

[grainboy]

Don’t think it will be willy nilly, because there won’t be enough to go round.

 

[Scribus]

Don’t think it will be willy nilly, because there won’t be enough to go round.

Indeed not. I rather wonder how long it will be before there are signs of backtracking on the money front, quietly of course, but that won't stop dodgy accountants thinking up ways of extracting what they can through dishonest means. Backdated pay rises, ghost employees, inflated tax returns etc. No system is 100% watertight.

 

[Barleymow]

Will there be a discount in future for every one who pays their bills on time ?