{"id":37281,"date":"2016-12-07T00:53:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/zac-goldsmith-some-kind-of-record-breaker-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T18:03:07","slug":"zac-goldsmith-some-kind-of-record-breaker-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/zac-goldsmith-some-kind-of-record-breaker-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Goldsmith \u2013 some kind of record breaker | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAgency working conditions | South African political parties | Zac Goldsmith\u2019s legacy | Time man of the year | Arts sponsorship | The new Keith FlettThe exploitation of agency workers (Agency workers \u2018exploited and forgotten\u2019, 5 December) has even spread to the Ministry of Justice which employs court interpreters through an agency. The MoJ can book me for a full day\u2019s work but should the case be adjourned or cancelled when I show up, I will only be paid little more than an hour\u2019s pay, putting the cost of cancellation or curtailment on me, the interpreter. What hope is there for agency workers\u2019 conditions if even the MoJ colludes in this bad practice?Name and address supplied\u2022 Your obituary of the admirable anti-apartheid activist Walter Hain (5\u00a0December) is marred by the assertion\u00a0the Liberal party was the only non-race-based political grouping in South Africa. Our sister party, the South\u00a0African Communist party, has a powerful claim to be the political party that forged the strongest multi-racial\u00a0unity.Nick WrightCommunist party media office, London Continue reading…
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