[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...the experiences of the last few months have not been the same for everyone it has to be said...but I don’t know how feasible it would be to give financial reward when we still don’t know what there is to come in the future...as Liam said, people should be paid what their value is and so often they’re not, sadly...

I agree with that - I'd much rather see a push for better pay and working conditions permanently than a one-off cash bonus.

Originally Posted by Cherie

All the big supermarkets should be doing that, they made an absolute fortune during lockdown

Oh I absolutely agree that the companies who actually did quite well out of the whole thing should be paying profit-related bonuses to all of their staff. Supermarket workers, Amazon warehouse staff, etc. should be getting a share of the covid pie.

Sadly we all know that the biggest bonuses, as usual, will go to senior management and executives.

[Liam-]

[Livia]

As far as the NHS is concerned they should be paid a salary reflecting their worth in the first place, something successive governments have failed to do.

[Nicky91]

of course Essential workers deserve bonusses

i'd also say give some a medal especially those who had been in frontline, at NHS for example in UK, other hospital workers in other countries too


no here in Netherlands they decided to give one comedian (she is on our radio every saturday, i mean she does not deserve a medal, since i find her quite hypocrite, for example she tells people ''stay home'' and she herself just goes to every store she can find, even has her own theatre shows again, above 140 people (which exceeds 100 people limit) but she is allowed bc miss is seen as a hero)


my point is if she gets a medal, praise, then the real essential workers also do deserve something, some bonus, praise, respect by the people

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Livia

As far as the NHS is concerned they should be paid a salary reflecting their worth in the first place, something successive governments have failed to do.

I agree, the salaries that trained nurses for example are paid are a joke compared to other countries. The US is the most striking example, in California an experienced nurse will be getting 6-figures ($110k average) . Though that's because they're employed privately/the US insurange model fleecing everyone, so not the best example. Still, several places in Europe it's around 60,000 euros for an experience level where an NHS nurse will be on £30 - 40k. Better paid in Australia, NZ... pretty much every 1st-world country.

[Cal.]

Yes