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He wasn't fired for reporting the incident. He was fired for breaking the law by using a mobile phone whilst driving in a company vehicle.
It's perfectly possible to report a dangerous driver to the relevant authorities without recording it on your phone.
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Which laws should you be allowed to break when you see which laws being broken by someone else?
Interesting question.
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If you want to record this sort of event, just set up a camera/device to record every journey as I do.
You can then safely record dangerous drivers.
What he did was put himself and others in danger by recording the van driver. Yes it's a bit screwed up him getting the sack, however he did do something that took his attention off driving safely...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Doing 90 in a 70 is not in itself dangerous - though various law enforcement agencies would disagree. It becomes dangerous when the speed is beyond the conditions, or the driver's ability. The law is there to work around the minimum acceptable driving standard, not the average.
Driving at 70 while filming on a mobile phone on the other hand...
I can't see that as safe in the slightest. There are huge numbers of studies which say just holding your mobile and talking into it is dangerously distracting, let alone using it as a video camera and trying to drive at the same time!
There are other ways this could - and should - have been handled. A quick call to the emergency services would have been enough.
I'm with the company on this one - though perhaps firing the guy was a little extreme, I can understand the thought process.
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"Shipley admits his driving was dangerous, but believes..."
... That he is entitled to drive dangerously and endanger all the other children and parents on the road?
Doesn't wash, with me.
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Two wrongs don't make a right?
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Thanks to this: 31.10.[^]
We get to have a three day weekend. I just wanted to express my happiness. Even though I enjoy my job,
a little time off is also appreciated. Also Halloween is a free day! 
I was also wondering, what holidays do you have in other countries, that excuse you from work without using any leave?
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England:
New Year's Day (or the first Monday afterwards if it is a weekend)
Good Friday
Easter Monday
First Monday in May
Last Monday in May
Last Monday in August
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
(if either of these last two is on a Saturday or Sunday then they day off gets moved to the Monday or / and Tuesday.
Most companies give you these off, although I don't believe they have to, and I have worked somewhere that for Easter you could have either Friday and Monday or Monday and Tuesday off.
I think the Scots get an extra day off at New Year because they are all too hungover to go back to work after just the one day off.
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We also used to have two days off for New Years, just last year the government decided to fix that and only give us one day off.
It is interesting to see the names of holidays in another language - as in for Good Friday we have Veliki Petek which basically means The Grand Friday(as all the others from Thursday to Monday). And the Monday is also off, however Good Friday isn't.
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The names for those I didn't give them to are Early May Bank Holiday (often called May Day), Spring Bank Holiday, and August Bank Holiday.
Most of them are Bank Holidays, Good Friday and Christmas Day are not, as they were never included in the act of law as they were already celebrated as holidays.
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Interesting, thanks for the information
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chriselst wrote: Most companies give you these off, although I don't believe they have to
They are public holidays so they have to give you the time or something in lieu, extra pay or other day off.
Years ago, before New Year's Day was a public holiday it was interesting to see how many people made it to work.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: They are public holidays so they have to give you the time or something in lieu, extra pay or other day off.
That's not true.
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I have never had to work a public holiday without being paid overtime or given time off. And I have worked on Christmas Day, over the Easter weekend a few times; maybe I was just lucky.
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There's no statutory right to time off (or pay) relating to those days, although there is a statutory minimum amount of holiday that has to be given which those days can count towards.
If that makes sense.
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chriselst wrote: If that makes sense.
Perfectly.
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There is no legal obligation clickety[^]in the UK for companies to give you public holidays - it is done out of the kindness of their hearts and because if they didn't they would be all over the papers.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Depends what business they are in.
My SIL is a midwife, and this year will be the first Christmas Day she hasn't worked for 3 years. Think she does get compensated extra for that though.
My wife works for Peter Andre's favourite frozen food retailer, and as far as they are concerned there are days when the shop is open and days when the shop is closed. From memory only Christmas Day and Easter Sunday (if the shops are too large to be open) are days they are closed. If you normally work Mondays then you have to work the bank holiday Mondays with no extra pay or time off.
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I hear somein the NHS try and work Christmas day because they get paid quite a bit more for doing so.
With regards to Iceland - that sounds incredibly mean spirited to not allow bank holidays and I take it 'closed days' are days when people are not paid.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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Well Austria would be the place to be as Employees in Austria have a total of 38 holidays 
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It would be better if you had only 38 working days per year 
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In like what? A 50 day year? 
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Not too far from me, so maybe one day
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RUs123 wrote: what holidays do you have in other countries, that excuse you from work without using any leave?
Every next day after pay day.
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