Sunday 8 December 2013

Justice is supposed to be blind, but not when signing outsourcing contracts

http://www.blog.rippedoffbritons.com/2013/12/justice-is-supposed-to-be-blind-but-not.html 
8 December 2013 

Justice is supposed to be blind, but not when signing outsourcing contracts.
House of Commons committees expose Ministry of Justice outsourcing contract calamities.
[…] A stark example of this unthinking wage-cutting was exposed by the House of Commons’ Justice Committee inquiring into the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) calamitous outsourcing: the provision of foreign language interpreters. Interpreters are required in courts and tribunals to help ensure non-English speaking defendants receive justice. Ironically interpreters are mainly freelance contractors - they are already 'private sector'. The MoJ seemed to simply want someone else to take on the task of cutting the interpreters' pay. […]

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