A Spot Of Legalised Mugging

I'm back on the campaign trail because I'm sick and tired of our government breaking the very laws its supposed to protect

Let me give you yet another example

Over two years ago, a grandmother went to work at Les Amis as usual. However, that day, the chair she was sitting on broke and she fell backward hurting her back. From that day to this, she has been in constant pain and has been signed off unable to work. The back injury may be permanent.

Les Amis responded by immediately reducing her wages to £17 a month for the last 2 years and then recently terminated her contract on the grounds of illness.

So how many laws has this broken?

Well, apart from not having health and safety policies and protocols to prevent such accidents, they have also not carried out a management review to deal with inadequate maintenance. That's negligence on two counts. Then according to someone who knows the employment law better than I, they've broken that law by terminating someone's employment in the middle of a dispute. On top of that, they have broken the discrimination laws by treating an employee's present disability as an illness. They're a disability charity. How would they like it if we told them that their clients aren't disabled, they're just ill? Where does a disability charity get off creating disability and then abusing the victim of their negligence?

So what's been done about it? Er ... nothing

Has Health and Safety investigated this accident? Well, I haven't seen a report

Have they even checked the other chairs to ensure that other members of staff are not at risk?

No

What about the Charity Commissioner? Ensuring good governance and that charities don't endanger the health of their employees is his domain? Has he done anything for the £1 million a year it's costing us to employ him?

No

Has parish of Saviour and its deputies done anything seeing as it happened within their boundaries? God, no

You know the thing that makes my blood boil is if that little old lady had been violently mugged and robbed in the street, it would be front page news and there would be a massive public uproar. But because a charity did the same thing behind closed doors, no one but me gives a rat's arse - not even the people getting paid large sums of public money to care

So I'd like to end by leaving you with two questions to think about:

1. How many more people are currently living with pain and hardship because they have been injured at work whilst social security, the parish leadership and every other relevant organisation looks the other way?
2. How have we come to this point where this kind of thing is allowed and even acceptable?