Cartesiano Wistle Blower
Segundo o artigo infra os Serviços pagam milhões delibras aos denunciadores de situações aberrantes tais como, corrupção. mal funcionamento, negliência, you name it, para se manterem silenciosos e não abrir a boca.
Eh pá, o sistema está ainda mais podre do aquilo que nós pensávamos. Imaginem também as ameaças, perseguição que deve de aí andar nos servços público contra quem não gista de coisas tortas e mal feitas, de asneirada! It really sucks!
Mesmo assim, sempre houve e sempre há-de heróis incógnicos que de cabeça erguida, sem medo, arriscando até a vida por denunciar os corruptos e inimigos da sociedade.
Sem essa gente de direito ainda andaríamos hoje para aí a dizer que a Terra é plana e o Sol gira em volta. O Galileu teve problemas graves com a Igreja Romana por isso, mas o Giordano Bruno foi mais infeliz, queimaram-no pelas mesmas afirmações científicas.
A hostória mostra que a evolução do conhecimento, o desenvo e reduziram-lhe o corpo e alama a um montinho de cinza. O progresso e bem-estar da humanidade deve-se aos corajosos e corajosas que têm desafiado os detentores de privilégios. Estes comprazem e deleitam no Satus Quo, quer dizer, eles estão bem pessoalmente e, por isso, opõem-se a tudo quando seja mudança porque poderá criar instabilidade para eles próprios. Egoísmo e Egocentrismo. F. O.
Viva os Wistle Blowers!
Abaixo a corrupção!
24 January 2014
Last updated at 02:02
There had been "shocking" examples of pay-offs to whistle-blowers, said MP Margaret Hodge
'Gagging clauses' in government pay-offs criticised
There had been "shocking" examples of pay-offs to whistle-blowers, said MP Margaret Hodge
The
use of so-called "gagging clauses" when paying off government employees
is preventing the public from finding out about "serious and systematic
failures" in the public sector, MPs have warned.
Payments of more than £28.4 million were made between 2010 and 2013, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Chairman Margaret Hodge argued it was "outrageous" some of this money had been spent to "cover up" failings.
The government said it was introducing "significant changes" to the system.
Public sector bodies can sign "compromise" or "settlement"
agreements to terminate employment contracts, which can include
confidentiality clauses so certain information is withheld.
Treasury approval is required before money is used this way
and 1,053 such payments, totalling £28.4m, occurred over the three-year
period.
'Inappropriate'
But the committee said a "lack of any meaningful central
oversight" meant the "true" number and value were unknown. The Treasury
did not need to approve payments by councils, the police, the BBC and
private sector firms that provide public services, it noted.
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Margaret Hodge Chairman, Public Accounts CommitteePeople who have been offered or accepted compromise agreements have clearly felt gagged”
Examples raised during the
cross-party committee's inquiry included £225,000 for former Morecambe
Bay NHS Trust chief executive Tony Halsall, who stood down amid concerns
over baby deaths.
The committee's report also referred to the £120,000 offered
to buy the silence of an NHS whistle-blower in the case of the death of
Peter Connelly, known as Baby P, in London in 2007.
Confidentiality clauses "may be appropriate in some
circumstances" but had been "used inappropriately to deter former
employees from speaking out about serious and systematic failures within
the public sector, for example, in patient care or child safety".
Mrs Hodge, a Labour MP, said: "We are deeply concerned about
the use of compromise agreements and special severance payments to
terminate employment in the public sector.
"It is clear that confidentiality clauses may have been used
in compromise agreements to cover up failure, and this is simply
outrageous."
'Significant changes'
She added: "We heard evidence of shocking examples of using
taxpayers' money to 'pay off' individuals who have flagged up concerns
about patient or child safety.
"It is vital that people feel free to speak out to help
prevent terrible tragedies or even deaths, and protecting the reputation
of an organisation, such as the NHS, at the expense of public safety is
unacceptable."
Mrs Hodge also said: "A confidentiality clause in a
compromise agreement is not meant to prevent legitimate whistle-blowing -
but people who have been offered, or accepted compromise agreements
have clearly felt gagged."
The committee's report welcomed proposals for the Treasury
and Cabinet Office to toughen rules and monitoring of compromise
agreements and confidentiality clauses.
A government spokeswoman said: "Hard-working people do not
expect their taxes to be spent to cover up failure - that's why we took
action and are bringing in significant changes, which will ensure
severance payments are not used to reward poor performance or prevent
whistle-blowing.
"We will examine this report and welcome that the [committee] recognises the work we have already done."
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