Atos in the news again

[Pete]

Just read about Atos/government requiring people working for them to sign the Official Secrets Act - talk about Big Brother...  Exactly why do they want this?

Looks like yet another attempt by the government to demonise anyone who isn't in full time employment...

"Doctors and nurses carrying out Atos’s controversial work capability assessments are made to sign the Official Secrets Act, the healthcare company confirmed yesterday.

The admission came after two doctors who work for the firm raised their concerns.

Both believe having to sign a document pointing out their obligations under the Act would make staff less likely to blow the whistle if they had concerns about the way the medical tests are carried out.

Atos are being paid more than £100million a year by the Government to do the assessments that help determine whether claimants are eligible for sickness benefits."

http://bit.ly/PqK0UL

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Pete]

Then one wonders why they are only being asked to do it now...

Bottom line - they don't want the truth out there, just too embarrasing after they and the press, have spent the last two years bleating on about benefit cheats, as though most people were.