Oxfam

[Nearly Sane]

You think that charities should ask any prospective employees if they use prostitutes? 

Possibly the question would be have you broken the law in another country?

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Possibly the question would be have you broken the law in another country?

My understanding is that if you break the law in another country & that law is repugnant to English/Scottish/ NI law, then it is not automatically enforceable in any of the latter.

TBH such a question reminds me of some TUPE agreements, where the new company asks TUPE employees to sign bits of paper signing away their contractual rights, without actually changing their employment contract.

[Harrowby Hall]

TUPE -  Transfer of Undertakings(Protection of Employment) Regulations?

I had to look it up. Don't assume we are mind readers.   

[Humph Warden Bennett]

TUPE -  Transfer of Undertakings(Protection of Employment) Regulations?

I had to look it up. Don't assume we are mind readers.   

My apologies.

TUPE means that your employer loses the contract with their client,  but you are given the chance to transfer to the new company under the same conditions.

[Rhiannon]

Some interesting statistics. How ‘transparent’ are the major beneficiaries of UK multilateral aid I wonder.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43031911

[Harrowby Hall]

My apologies.

TUPE means that your employer loses the contract with their client,  but you are given the chance to transfer to the new company under the same conditions.

Thank you. I suspect that - with situations like that of Carillion around - it is an important consideration.

[Enki]

You think that charities should ask any prospective employees if they use prostitutes? 

If prostitution was an illegal activity in a crisis  hit country that a charitable organization was entering, then I would have thought that anyone who used prostitutes would be at risk of damaging the charity that they are representing. Hence, the charity needs to make sure that the personnel they employ are  responsible as well as caring people.

[SteveH]

Being a fully paid-up member of the awkward squad, I intend to make a special donation to Oxfam.

[Robbie]

From what I've read and heard over the past couple of days I feel the same as you. Oxfam has done so much good for so long despite the rotten apples which exist in all organisations. We will hear similar about other charities in due course & same applies to them.

[Harrowby Hall]

I feel the same way, too.

We live in a world where morality is determined by venal red-top and blue-top "newspapers",   Their editors seem to regard their own offices as pulpits.

[Nearly Sane]

I think since the original issue there have been more than enough questions and further issues raised that means some form of review of the sector, the Charities Commission and govt involvement - but somehow without the politicization of it.


ETA = one of the questions is that to properly police this, it will need charities to spend more of the money raised on such scrutiny, and people will have to accept that

[Nearly Sane]

I hadn't seen the murdering babies in cots remark, and had thought Goldring was handling this reasonably well.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43121833