30th January 2013, 12:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 30th January 2013, 12:54 AM by GnomeKing.)
chiz Wrote:I think you'll regret this when you've thought about it a bit more.
I think i possibly might agree with that thought...
I was also thinking:
Maybe the IFA should also just drop pay minima >>>
in fact, why not end all involvement with financial and employment issues in commercial archaeology ? (there are after all many relevant Laws...,and still avenues to explore regarding workplace collective bargaining...)
If it dropped such concerns, the IFA resources could then focus precisely, and exclusively, on Quality, of whatever work was actually being done, however-which-way it had been committed...
This could, just possibly might be, a Great Outcome>>>
i.e. Good companies with well motivated and skilled staff = high standards of technical work = commercial successes (nice eh?)
Bad work might lead to closer monitoring or even direct 'supervision' - but this might also be in form of training and guidance to resolve problems, not necessarily commercial failure...
HOWEVER !!! is this scenario 'too good to be true'?
...i think ... YES.
COMMERCIAL-INTERESTS ALREADY APPEAR TO DOMINATE OVER TECHNICAL-STANDARDS WITHIN THE IFA COUNCIL. AND THE IFA HAS REPEATEDLY FAILED TO 'GRASP-THE-NETTLE' REGARDING THE QUALITY OF WORK ACTUALLY BEING DONE.THEREFORE, THERE CAN BE VERY LITTLE HOPE FOR SUCH A POSITIVE FUTURE, at least not in our life-times anyway.....
possibly the system is just too-badly-messed-up-already to be fixed...maybe not (in the longer view at least).
What seems certain, is that that without a real commitment to police the Quality of commercial work, pay-minima, be them minimal, are the only leash on commercial practices They are also a Raft for some of my fellow human-beings.
SO...Unless the IFA announce a MAJOR game-changer in terms of technical standards, Pay-minima must be kept.
(no idea now that relates to BAJR though)
