"James Hammerton" wrote in message
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> Yet more guilt by accusation in Britain. From the BBC
> (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7389547.stm):
>
> "To critics it sounds like a scenario from some Orwellian nightmare.
>
> An online database of workers accused of theft and dishonesty,
> regardless of whether they have been convicted of any crime, which
> bosses can access when vetting potential employees.
>
> But this is no dystopian fantasy. Later this month, the National
> Staff Dismissal Register (NSDR) is expected to go live.
>
> Organisers say that major companies including Harrods, Selfridges
> and Reed Managed Services have already signed up to the scheme. By
> the end of May they will be able to check whether candidates for
> jobs have faced allegations of stealing, forgery, fraud, damaging
> company property or causing a loss to their employers and suppliers.
>
> Workers sacked for these offences will be included on the register,
> regardless of whether police had enough evidence to convict them.
> Also on the list will be employees who resigned before they could
> face disciplinary proceedings at work.
>
> Note the vague "causing loss to their employers" bit of this.
>
> And who’s behind this? The AABC, a group set up under a partnership
> between the Home Office and the British Retail Consortium (i.e. a bit of
> corporate statism):
>
> The register is an initiative of Action Against Business Crime
> (AABC), which was established as a joint venture between the Home
> Office and the British Retail Consortium “to set up and maintain
> business crime reduction partnerships”.
>
> To be fair to the Home Office they say they stopped funding the AABC this
> year.
>
> I wonder whether AABC could be sued for libel by someone wrongly accused
> via this database?
So as the Home Office are promoting this database,& considering that "Also
on the list will be employees who resigned before they could face
disciplinary proceedings at work.", can we expect to see the names of the
various senior members of H.M. Police Constabularies & the Chief Police
Officers who suddenly choose to retire rather than face disciplinary
proceedings for misconduct at work ?
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Joe Lee
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