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The Camborne / Redruth / Hayle Gazette August 2017


Meningitis warning to teenagers


PARENTS in Cornwall are being reminded this sum- mer to encourage their 18- year-old children to get vac- cinated against meningitis and septicaemia.


Those who are due to leave school, or are aged 17-18 and are not in school (born between 1 September 1, 1998, and August 31, 1999), are now eligible. The MenACWY jab protects against four strains of meningococcal disease which causes meningitis and septicaemia, known as strains A, C, W and Y. MenW is one of the most aggressive and life-threat- ening forms and meningo- coccal disease can be fatal. Many survivors are left with life-changing disabilities, in- cluding brain damage and loss of limbs.


The MenACWY vaccine remains the best form of protection against the A, C, W, and Y strains with a 100 per cent effectiveness rate in those that have been vac- cinated so far. The vaccine is provided at GP practices. Julie Yates, of Public Health England, said: ‘We have seen a rapid increase in MenW cases across Eng- land in recent years and vaccination is the most ef- fective way of protecting against infection. Young people are particularly at risk as they are carriers of the disease. Being in con- fined environments with close contact, such as uni- versity halls, hostels when travelling or attending festi- vals, increases the chances of infection if unprotected.’


New president for Lions club


AT a recent social dinner held at Tehidy Golf Club, the mem- bers of the Camborne Redruth & District Lions Club held their annual ceremony of changing presidents. The outgoing 41st president, Viv Broad- hurst, said that the Lions had had yet an- other happy and suc- cessful year in which, due to effi- cient fundraising and generosity from the public, they had been able to donate funds to 25 worthy causes. Viv was presented with the Lions’ wooden spoon and a framed collage of photos depicting the


Warning over dodgy bosses


Advice bureau highlights the ‘tricks’ some employers use


LIONS Paul Bray and Viv Broadhurst showing their chains of office


events that had hap- pened during her year of office


Before passing on the Lions’ chain of of- fice to Paul Bray, Viv issued an invitation to any interested peo-


ple to either come and join the Lions or become a Lion Helper. She con- cluded by wishing Lion Paul Bray a suc- cessful and happy presidential year.


ASKING people to become self- employed if they want to keep their jobs or telling agency staff they don’t have a right to sick pay are just two of the things employers say to find ways around people’s rights at work, says Citizens Advice Cornwall. The organisation has identi-


fied 10 common things that some employers say to try to mislead workers. In the 12 months to April, Citizens Ad- vice Cornwall helped 1,105 peo- ple with a problem at work. Citizens Advice chief execu- tive Neil Colquhoun said: ‘Un- scrupulous bosses are using ex- cuses to duck out of giving people the rights they’re enti- tled to. People with compli- cated working arrangements such as flexible hours and tem- porary or agency contracts can find it particularly difficult to work out what their rights are, allowing some bad bosses to trick them out of pay and enti- tlements.’


Citizens Advice’s 10 things are:


LION Peter Giannasi presenting Viv with the club’s wooden spoon


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1: ‘You work for us but you’ll need to pay your own National Insurance contributions.’ 2: ‘We can’t afford to pay you


anymore, you’ll have to go self- employed.’


Citizens Advice says: ‘Being asked to pay your own Na- tional Insurance or to go self- employed when nothing has changed are signs of “bogus self-employment” – your boss wrongly claims you are self- employed.’ 3: ‘Your disability means you don’t do as much work as oth- ers, so we’re not going to pay you the minimum wage.’ 4: ‘You were travelling be- tween clients – so we didn’t pay you for those hours.’


Citizens Advice says: ‘Every employee should get the na- tional minimum wage and you should be paid for all the time you spend at work.’ 5: ‘You’re pregnant? Great! But we’re worried you won’t cope so we’re cutting your hours.’ 6: ‘You’re having a baby next year? We’ll need to take you off that important project now.’ Citizens Advice says: ‘Your working arrangements during pregnancy should stay the same unless you ask for a change.’ 7: ‘We don’t have to pay you


redundancy pay because you’re on a zero hours contract.’ Citizens Advice says:


‘Wrong – some zero hours workers are entitled to redun- dancy pay. You need to have been working for your em- ployer for two years or more, usually doing at least one shift a week.’ 8: ‘We need to close for the next two days for stock-taking, so you’ll need to take holiday.’ Citizens Advice says: ‘If your employer needs you to take hol- iday, they should give you twice as much notice as the length of holiday needed. If you aren’t given proper notice, you should be paid and not asked to use leave. 9: ‘You work through an agency, so you don’t get sick pay.’


Citizens Advice says: ‘Agency workers should be paid sick pay by the agency.’ 10: ‘We took you off the rota, so we don’t owe you sick pay.’ Citizens Advice says: ‘If you’ve already agreed to work the hours and you’ve been ab- sent long enough to qualify, you should get sick pay.’


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