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_The Evening Post_, 18 September 1924:
            EYESIGHT TESTS
     IN THE RAILWAY SERVICE
  #Eyesight tests in the #Railway Department were recently the subject of a question addressed by Mr. F. Langstone (Waimarino) to the Minister of Railways. Mr. Langstone asked whether, in view of the fact that the Railway Department is submitting its permanent #employees to a strict eyesight test which numbers are failing to pass, he will see that no reduction in grades, salaries, or future increments and promotions…. Yesterday Mr. Coates replied : "When members fail to pass the eyesight test so that they cannot be kept in the positions … their pay is affected accordingly. If a suitable position … will not involve reducing his pay, that is done, but … it is … impossible to avoid the reduction of some of the members.… reductions are treated as being due to infirmity, and the superannuation rights of the members are preserved…. practically no reductions take place among the #guards as the result of defects in visual acuity. The reductions which the honourable member no doubt has in mind are due to defective colour perception…."
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What is driving the massive rise in #UK shoplifting?

Asking security #guards when & how the #police get involved - they laugh

Reasons given for shoplifting increase:

“It’s all part of a mentality of feeling like you’re being screwed and that you’re a commodity,”

A tech-industry manager says “corporate mentality” increasing profits, raising prices well above inflation, not caring how it affects people, “has never seemed more prevalent than it is now

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The Guardian · Did you pay for that? What is driving the massive rise in shoplifting?By Guardian staff reporter

People are entitled to do as they wish in their private lives. If it is not affecting their output in the workplace or their colleagues then it's none of their employers business. If a person consumes an illegal substance then that's a matter for the . is attempting to become more and more Orwellian with the suggestion of employee random but it's also nonsense by an out of touch politician. newstalk.com/news/random-testi

Newstalk · Random testing at work could help tackle Ireland's drug problem - LenihanFormer Minister of State Conor Lenihan was speaking as cocaine is now the most common drug that people seek treatment for