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There's a fascinating disconnect, is there not, between the credo by which the corporate world lives as it perceives the current expenditure turbulence surrounding FAS senior management and the views put forth by the people at the other end of the social spectrum ?
I agree.I suspect that it would be a big mistake to assume that the response of "the corporate world" to this story would be to agree with the FAS boss' excuses.
As for travel expenses, someone on the radio last night made the point that the CEO of FAS is entitled to travel first class because that is the policy for senior civil servants. That doesn't make it right, but he is entitled to do so
As I cycled and so didn’t have any travel expenses I asked that I not be given it.
Ha ha, more fool you ! You wont last long in the recession with that kind of an attitude !
As for travel expenses, someone on the radio last night made the point that the CEO of FAS is entitled to travel first class because that is the policy for senior civil servants. That doesn't make it right, but he is entitled to do so
Wear and tear on the bike? Extra nutrition requirements? Batteries for the headlights? I know where you are coming from but to say you didn't have travel expenses is not totally true (granted they might not be £12.50/week).When I was an apprentice we used to get £12.50 a week travel allowance. As I cycled and so didn’t have any travel expenses I asked that I not be given it. I was told that there was no mechanism not to give it to me.
Wear and tear on the bike? Extra nutrition requirements? Batteries for the headlights? I know where you are coming from but to say you didn't have travel expenses is not totally true (granted they might not be £12.50/week).
The vast majority of people fly economy on long-haul flights....even the heads of some multi-national companies. As a taxpayer, and with hospital patients on trolleys in corridors , and rats in school pre-fab classrooms, I do not think civil servants, overpaid as they are, should be sent ( along with their parters etc ) on junkets overseas at vast expense to the taxpayer, staying in 5 star hotels, and with return flights said to cost 8,000 euro. What a waste.I do not believe that the CEO of a State agency should be obliged to fly economy on long-haul flights.
The employees of the company you were talking about above. "When I was an apprentice we used to get £12.50 a week travel allowance."Who (in the real world) gets paid for travelling into their permanent place of work?
I got it from FAS, not my employer, and I only got it while on block release.The employees of the company you were talking about above. "When I was an apprentice we used to get £12.50 a week travel allowance."
BTW I'm not trying to justify it.
Thats a load of rubbish. I and my colleagues in the civil service have to travel on occasions and we always travel economy class and don't mind doing so. Have never heard of anyone that I have worked with ever travelling business class and would not expect it. That goes the same for senior civil servants.
by senior civil servants they were referring to head of departments, head of bodies such as FAS, IDA etc. BAsically they were saying that such people have the same entitlement as Govt ministers
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