The bigger picture here is requiring the employee to use a computer *at all* to check payslips. I would assume that by only providing payslips electronically, UWS must assume that all employees have access to a suitable computer at their workplace (after all, in my experience, payslips don't get sent home, but to your office pigeon hole) or as part of their employment agreement. I guess if you are a casual/part-time employee then you may not have a permanent office PC or workstation, but you ought to have some accesss to a shared office environment. (UWS I would imagine have to cater for people in all sorts of situations possibly with physical disabilities restricting their ability to use a PC, or even people such as gardeners or cleaning staff that never have used a PC)
(I know this is sidestepping the must-use-MS issue) Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 9:42 AM To: Jon Biddell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
