LFC Staff using charities to survive lockdown

That imo is different , redundancy is of a role and sadly a worker . They are also free to join the job market to develop there futures .

I do believe there are ethical and social conscious companies operating . I’m not saying Lfc are not yet as we are awaiting a more authoritative source for this story .
I agree with you in principal mate but there’s always going to be societal problems within football clubs when people are picking up 300k a week.
 
Rangers Fc committed to Living wage last year or the year before was it ?

how come these clubs aren’t showing more social respect and economic commitment to the workforce ?

Living wage is the hourly rate you pay someone. It isnt really relevant to the discussion of people having their hours of work significantly cut.

If the person is on a zero hour contract and only given 5 hours work. That hourly rate of £8.72 isn't going to do very much.
 
Living wage is the hourly rate you pay someone. It isnt really relevant to the discussion of people having their hours of work significantly cut.

If the person is on a zero hour contract and only given 5 hours work. That hourly rate of £8.72 isn't going to do very much.

Agree mate you make a good point . If we are thinking in covid terms then clearly an effective furlough scheme is the protection mechanism of the government . Personally I’d prefer a long term solution like Universal Basic Income eg .

goes without saying I find zero hours contracts and that type of thinking unacceptable in a modern UK economy .Is that what lfc and others are doing - and are u saying rangers have done that too ?
 
Agree mate you make a good point .

goes without saying I find zero hours contracts and that type of thinking unacceptable in a modern UK economy .Is that what lfc and others are doing - and are u saying Rangers have done that too ?

I can't comment directly on what Rangers are doing as I don’t know the ins and outs. However zero hour contracts are prevalent in football amongst academy, scouting, community and casual staff.

I work part time in a youth academy and I'm paid hourly on a zero hour contract for my evening and weekend work. I'm fortunate enough to do it on top of my normal work so the effects of the pandemic and not being involved in football during lockdown were negligible to me.

However there's people who will have been working significant hours a week on a zero hour contract dependant on the income it brought in who have no safety or security due to the nature of these agreements. From the post on reddit, Liverpool are now using the zero hour contract to distribute the work daily and irregularly. Which is leaving their staff in the lurch and struggling.

Unfortunately that's how these agreements can be abused and calls into question their morality. They're alright for me, they're alright for retirees, they're needed for specialist industries like the film industry but their prevalence in the British workplace shouldn't be as accepted as it is and should have more protective measures in place.
 
Liverpool fans seem to think along the same lies/lines as Celtic ones that their club and they are some how morally superior to other clubs and fans. They're not. As for the club itself if you remember how they treated Anfield residents to get their own way them this isn't really a surprise.
Absolute rubbish.

Typical nonsense from someone with an agenda clearly, who doesn’t know anything about the fans.

Liverpool fans raised over £120k at the weekend for a foodbank, as a result of boycotting their PPV match. This is more than any of the rest of the EPL, double any other club.
 
I'm quite sure Klopp would be appalled if he found that out as he seems a quite compassionate bloke and I don't think the players,in fairness will know anything of it. I hope it's righted for the people concerned.
If its true they will know everything about it,the working class can kiss my arse I've got the foreman's job at last..
 
Think its about time players helped out let’s face it the money they are making is crazy anyway. Even at our own club people have paid there season tickets and I’m sure there are one that ore not worked because of the virus . Don’t know the answer but just think it’s not right.
 
What a fecked up world we live in. Employer pays out tens of millions in transfer fees for a handful of players yet cant offer help to employees so they have to go to charities to stop being hungry.

Agreed, similar to Hibs this season but to a far lesser extent. Made sweeping redundancies this season to back room staff who had been there for years and in the youth set up whilst signing players left and right.
 
Absolute rubbish.

Typical nonsense from someone with an agenda clearly, who doesn’t know anything about the fans.

Liverpool fans raised over £120k at the weekend, as a result of boycotting their PPV match. This is more than any of the rest of the EPL, double any other club.
They're insufferable holier than thou hypocrites like their good friends at Celtic imo. That's my opinion of them and many other fans in UK feel the same if that's ok with you? I suppose it's your English team? Another modern phenomenon I want no part of. I have no agenda as I support 1 club have no English club loyalty apart from being a casual viewer.
 
They're insufferable holier than thou hypocrites like their good friends at Celtic imo. That's my opinion of them and many other fans in UK feel the same if that's ok with you? I suppose it's your English team? Another modern phenomenon I want no part of. I have no agenda as I support 1 club have no English club loyalty apart from being a casual viewer.
The only thing that’s lying is you. There is no special relationship between the clubs or fans.

I have followed Rangers and Liverpool, through thick and thin for 40 years, since Liverpool had the Scottish contingent. Many Rangers fans have an English club they favour so spare me the rubbish about a modern phenomenon. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
 
The only thing that’s lying is you. There is no special relationship between the clubs or fans.

I have followed Rangers and Liverpool, through thick and thin for 40 years, since Liverpool had the Scottish contingent. Many Rangers fans have an English club they favour so spare me the rubbish about a modern phenomenon. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Ok mate. I don't care either way. I've offended your team sorry. Got a German team so I know not to offend them? LFC fans wether they have a infinity with Celtic or not my view on them is my view on them.
 
I get people go straight to the players when you read disgusting stuff like this but it's 100% the boards issue.

The players are being paid the going rate.
I see where you are arguing from this is a club policy and employment practice and the covid pandemic has exposed the downside of those more clearly than it had been until now .

I agree it’s an unethical practice and I hope that our club , while adopting the Living wage a couple of years back have or will eliminate these contract types .
 
No difference to ourselves. We've made people redundant while have players on 20/30k a week. The money is different but the principal is the same.

Agreed mate. I said it at the time. I was disgusted that top flight football clubs, ourselves included. Were given the option of furloughing staff, whilst paying millions in transfer fees. Its disgraceful, when you think the furlough scheme will come out of the tax payers pockets.

Im not singling out Rangers, the scheme was there to be taken advantage of, its just morally reprehensible that the staff of these clubs can go hungry in these unprecedented times, while clubs like Liverpool can drop tens of millions on a player signing and not bat an eyelid
 
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