There are nonetheless a whole lot of individuals ready for justice from the Submit Workplace scandal the place over 700 hundred sub postmasters had been unfairly prosecuted. The system, Horizon created by Fujitsu was a defective and unreliable system which was not taken accountability for by both Fujitsu or the Submit Workplace after they knew the place the blame ought to have been.

Fujitsu have now publicly apologised for his or her half and Paul Patterson, the Fujitsu Europe boss had introduced to MPs that the agency has a “ethical obligation” to contribute to the compensation, as reported by the BBC.

The Guardian inform us that the compensation is estimated to be as much as £1 billion and the talk Is that this could not come from the taxpayer purse however somewhat the big firms that are responsible for this being wanted.

There are actually three Submit Workplace compensation schemes which have been arrange for victims with over 4000 folks instructed they’re eligible for pay-outs.

The defective system made by Fujitsu was extra broadly trusted by bosses each on the Submit Workplace and Fujitsu than the individuals who labored for them day-after-day. There have been experiences of bugs and errors when the system was first put in place in 1999 and but these had been all ignored.

Is Fujitsu nonetheless in enterprise?

Regardless of the seemingly real apologies and pledges to deal with the problem, Fujitsu haven’t misplaced out on any enterprise and remains to be deeply ingrained within the public sector. Fujitsu proceed working with the Submit Workplace and the £95 million contract has been prolonged till 2025.

On high of this, Fujitsu has continued successful over authorities contracts value billions with HMRC, the Ministry of Defence and, the Division for Enterprise, Vitality and Industrial technique.

This poses the query of whether or not we are able to belief the corporate to be so closely embedded within the public sector.

Fujitsu and the federal government

Not solely have they got enterprise inside vital sectors they’re additionally built-in within the authorities, donating £26,000 to labour and conservative to host ‘lounges’ at every occasion’s convention. The Guardian has reported the depth of the hyperlink that Fujitsu has with the federal government and that they’re so embedded they might be getting off extra frivolously than they need to.

Simon Blagden, the Fujitsu UK chair till 2019 is a long-term conservative donor and has been appointed UK well being safety company advisory board and paid from the general public purse.

Michael Keegan was the CEO after which Chair of Fujitsu and is now a Crown Consultant of the cupboard workplace, making him one of many officers who oversee relationships with public sector suppliers.

Evidently even when Fujitsu do the suitable factor and pay the compensation to the victims they nonetheless could have entry to the general public sector and to the excessive courtroom that means they might not be affected in the long term for the injustice they’ve precipitated.

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