On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jon Biddell wrote:
> -=> Geoffrey Robertson said: > -=> > My wife does some teaching out at USW. They have > -=> receintly told her > -=> > that they will no longer be issueing paper pay slips. > -=> They will be > -=> > online and she will be "required" to use IE5 to read > -=> them. She has > -=> > > -=> I think the more interesting question is the legality of > -=> doing this. AFAIK they must provide a pay slip and even a > -=> written record of all the super deductions for the month. > -=> You can't require people to have to outlay money to check > -=> pay slips. Just checked with our office and they maintain > -=> that this would be illegal for them. > > Geoffery, what pay system are they using ? If it's PayGlobal (which I > administer for another University), the browser is irrelevant, and the > payslips are actually in PDF format. <soapbox> Surely the more interesting aspect is being forced to pay a M$ tax simply to be on someones payroll? If Mrs.Robertson is the sort of person who is willing to be the dog at this bone, we could even establish some sort of legal precedent. Like all of us, I'm sick of being told that I *must* use Microsoft products simply because some clown has been brainwashed to believe that it's the only way of doing things, much less the best way. Even the ATO has been guilty of this crap, as well as some banks etc. It's probably too much to expect politicians to understand that being in the thrall of one (foreign) company is a BAD_IDEA (tm), but perhaps industrial due-process may see it more realistically. </soapbox> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
