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So the government have finally got around to publishing the new junior doctor contract, and no surprise, it's loving terrible. Aside from the pay cut for most of us, it includes various other malicious things like: - If you want to do any work outside your contracted hours you must offer your labour to your own trust first, for whatever rate of pay they choose. If you don't then you may not work for another trust or a locum agency. - If a shift starts on a Friday then it will not be counted as being a weekend shift, even if it ends on the Saturday. So working 9pm Friday to 9am Saturday is not working at the weekend. - If Christmas Day, Boxing Day, or New Years Day falls on a weekend (and so the bank holiday is transferred to Monday) and you are required to work that day you get nothing in compensation. No percentage of pay, no time in lieu. - Payments for filling in cremation forms will now as a standard be paid to the hospital rather than the doctor. - If you wish to raise a concern about being made to work unsafe hours, or hours beyond the contractual limit, this must be raised via your educational supervisor. This is the person who determines if you pass or fail your year of training. If you fail there is no means of appeal and it could potentially wreck your career. And that's before we get on to the 'Equality Assessment'! Yes, the government assessed what impact the new contract will have on women and other protected groups. Here is an excerpt (apologies for terrible picture):  Note the following phrases: "any indirect adverse effect on women is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim" "while these changes may, in isolation, disadvantage women... this must be balanced with the 13.5% increase in basic pay" "While this may disadvantage lone parents (who are disproportionately women)... in some cases this may actually benefit other women, for example where individuals have partners" The whole document is shot through with phrases like those. Flat-out admission that the new contract disproportionately hits women, and particularly single parents, but it's OK because it's all in the name of achieving a 'legitimate aim'. Basically the whole contract is 
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Is this "legitimate aim" to enforce Victorian-fanfic style family morals and punish single women who've had sex at some point in the past? Sounds like a classic Tory policy to me.
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Mar 31, 2016 23:58
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I'm glad to see that everything remains terrible.  Happy April UKMT  New thread is up here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770523
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