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« Reply #690 on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 10:54:48 » |
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Her employer has said that just under 50% of employees will be having their pay "adjusted",
Didn't even think that was legal, unless voluntary in some way. Nice. |
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« Reply #691 on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 11:43:48 » |
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Easy to make it voluntary. At my brothers work they had to vote for a 25% paycut across the board, or 40% redunancies.
A pretty easy choice there.
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« Reply #692 on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 13:55:24 » |
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Easy to make it voluntary. At my brothers work they had to vote for a 25% paycut across the board, or 40% redunancies.
A pretty easy choice there.
Not if you think you're in the top 60% of the workforce it isn't. |
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« Reply #693 on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 14:57:34 » |
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Not if you think you're in the top 60% of the workforce it isn't.
I don't think redundancy decisions go much past the balance sheet these days. The top 40% earniers should be worried! |
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« Reply #694 on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 16:18:55 » |
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I don't think redundancy decisions go much past the balance sheet these days. The top 40% earniers should be worried!
Sadly, you're wrong. Positions are made redundant, not people, then it becomes a case of how you rank and rate the people capable of filling the remaining positions. this means that a person's job could disappear, but someone else may leave the company and that person be retained. To do this there has to be detailed criteria for 'scoring', and full details as to how the process was carried out, otherwise the employer could end up before employment tribunals. |
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« Reply #695 on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 16:41:07 » |
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Well OK, but there are ways around it aren't there.
e.g. employ a load of cheaper employees doing the same job but based overseas. They were of course doing the same job (for less), hard to argue against the 'scoring'.
Or make a higher ranking position redundant, then distribute similar responsibilities to other team members who won't be doing the same role.
My point being, people I have worked with have been made redundant and effectiveness at their job didn't seem to come into it. Some excellent people got canned. Some plebs kept their job.
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« Reply #696 on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 18:23:59 » |
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Didn't even think that was legal, unless voluntary in some way. Nice.
I've probably greatly oversimplified it, I'm sure all the correct boxes are being ticked, but this is pretty much the effect of it, that she's waiting to hear if she's one of the ones getting a pay cut. Apparently the "adjustments" may also include some rises, but she's not holding her breath |
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« Reply #697 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 19:46:53 » |
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Had a second interview before Christmas and just got the call. Thank fuck for that.
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« Reply #698 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 20:11:13 » |
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Had a second interview before Christmas and just got the call. Thank fuck for that.
Superb. That's fantastic news! |
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« Reply #699 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 20:12:36 » |
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Nice one dude.
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« Reply #700 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 20:13:08 » |
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yaaaay go sussex  |
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« Reply #701 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 20:34:29 » |
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Had a second interview before Christmas and just got the call. Thank fuck for that.
Well done buddy! |
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« Reply #702 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 20:45:10 » |
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Excellent news Paul.
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« Reply #703 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 21:16:18 » |
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hooray! thats great news
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« Reply #704 on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 22:21:13 » |
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well done Paul......................FanFuckingTastic
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