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Originally Posted by beemerbird
Agree with everyones comments.
Would you believe that myself and my colleagues as 'public servants' are not even allowed to accept a gift of a box of chocolates from a member of the public nor a solicitor (that would be a first anyhow lol). The 'gift' could be constituted as a bribe. Utter bollocks ffs!!!!
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My wife works for the NHS within the prison service and during a prison officer's strike they worked overtime to keep the prisoners supplied with their drugs (f**** me off anyway). The governers gave 4 of them each £50 worth of shopping vouchers, (the prison officers who didn't strike got an extra £500 each)
My wife and her colleagues were not allowed to keep the vouchers and instructed to hand them over to the NHS trust. They shredded them in protest rather than do that.
Had they been allowed to keep them they would have had to declare it as benefit in kind and be taxed accordingly.