24th September 2012, 05:48 PM
Martin Locock Wrote:The trouble is that demand for staff inevitably varies from time to time, making a permanent team difficult to sustain. I think the "skills passport" approach to validating the good diggers is the best way to inform a labour market where expertise is recionised and rewarded.it is curious that you are not advocating permanent employment as the best way forward. i would see the vagaries of demand as the most detrimental aspect of industry employment. i think half the problem is that most diggers do not get the chance to be anything other than a digger and will therefore settle for crap p&c until they come to their senses and get a proper job somewhere else
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers