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Absolutely not. The furlough scheme was a job retention scheme aimed at companies who would potentially have to make employees redundant without financial help. How can a club that has paid transfer fees morally justify using govt funds to pay employees over the summer.

Every penny the govt saves on not paying furlough to companies that just don't need it but treat it as a bonus, is money that can be given yo nurses

 

If only there was a thread to discuss the NHS pay deal.

 

Morally no. But since when has football ever been about morals?

Even the PL clubs furloughed some matchday staff last year, that's how low the billionaires in the sport will sink.

 

NO! NO! NO.

I think it is a disgrace if Bradford City did this.

Rupp can afford to put his hands in his pocket and pay his staff if needs be.

 

And people who have worked 18 hour days behind the scenes to make sure the vaccination programme is a success, ensuring the right supply in the right place? Just as valuable to all of us surely?

 

Furloughed football players - NO
pay rise for NHS workers - NO
Do firefighters get a rise when the run into burning buildings - NO
Do soldiers get a rise when they go to war - NO
Have millions of people lost their jobs, houses, businesses, relationships - YES

This pandemic is not all about the NHS!!!!

 

definately not. the scheme is not meant for this.
we have a weeks shut down for easter at work, should all the staff be furloughed to save the company money, no way and who picks up the tab, the tax payers of this country.

 

I think they will look into it. If they have already used the schemes for other staff then they will have everything set up and who would know?

As long as they are not doing anything illegal and follow the rules I don’t have an issue with it. It would be like not using a tax rebate scheme that was on offer

 

Has it though? Look at the ifollow sales for away matches. We are getting near on £20k a match and thats extra revenue that would only be covered in normality by an extra 1,000 on the home gate from walk ups.

 

Agree, but there's £350m from Brexit that is to be spent on the NHS, right? I mean they said so on a bus. It must be true.
*Edit. Posted before I saw BigRods bus post.

 

You make some good points to be fair but it just somehow feels wrong that my tax contribution is most likely being upped so multi millionaires like Rupp can save a few quid.

 

Edited for you.
But it won't be.

 

which is spread over a number of years and also with completely new contracts and changes to terms and conditions. It also includes changing loads of different contracts etc into one and is an average rather than for everyone

 

Get real, it's been spent many many times over already on yes the NHS....

 

I don't think that's a bad idea if I'm honest although some will actually be more deserving of it than others. My daughter is a midwife and her department has been no more busy than usual obviously.

What's the total cost of that? One off payment of ~£1.5bn in total? Is my maths right? Even ignoring the bus which was both a disingenuous claim and also already been spent many times over that's still a chunky sum though.

You can be damn sure that if they offered a grand bonus the unions and Kier would say it wasn't enough anyway.