Jersey - Postal workers given deadline on demotion

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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POSTAL workers face the prospect of being demoted after Jersey Post’s latest round of voluntary redundancies was taken up by just eight employees.

In July, Jersey Post announced that they were looking for 90 voluntary redundancies, 54 of them postal workers, as part of a bid to save £4.9 million by the end of next year. The other 36 posts, which have had sufficient take-up, were for management and support staff.

But only eight staff from the 54 postal workers have applied for voluntary redundancy. An alternative solution, thrashed out between Jersey Post management and the Communications Workers Union, who represent the postal workers, was presented to union members this week.

Affected staff now have until 24 September to decide whether they want to go from being postal workers to postal operatives, with a pay drop of £120 a week. The new posts have fewer responsibilities.


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[genesis]

How much are they on now?

[vinnieb5]

£130.00 per week

[maisymoo04]

TAX FREE HAHA

[walksyo]

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POSTAL workers face the prospect of being demoted after Jersey Post’s latest round of voluntary redundancies was taken up by just eight employees.

In July, Jersey Post announced that they were looking for 90 voluntary redundancies, 54 of them postal workers, as part of a bid to save £4.9 million by the end of next year. The other 36 posts, which have had sufficient take-up, were for management and support staff.

But only eight staff from the 54 postal workers have applied for voluntary redundancy. An alternative solution, thrashed out between Jersey Post management and the Communications Workers Union, who represent the postal workers, was presented to union members this week.

Affected staff now have until 24 September to decide whether they want to go from being postal workers to postal operatives, with a pay drop of £120 a week. The new posts have fewer responsibilities.


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this is precisely wots guna happen throughout Royal Mail when it's privatised..mark my words....the "lucky 1's" aplyin for there own jod on much reduced terms..

[TrueBlueTerrier]

TAX FREE HAHA

Wrong, its a common mistake but they are not tax free in Jersey.

Because Jersey is not an EU member state, it can have a duty free regime if it chooses. So although inter-EU duty free ended on 30 June 1999, duty free is still available to passengers to and from Jersey. Historically, duty in the Island has been set at a much lower rate than in the UK and Western Europe. Value Added Tax (VAT), currently at 17.5 per cent in the UK, has never been applied in Jersey a Goods and Services Tax at 3.0 per cent was introduced in 2008.

The Island is often considered to be duty free because the lower duty regime and absence of VAT enabled selling prices to be about the same as those found in duty free shops around the world. The duty free allowance is 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250 grammes of tobacco, plus one litre of spirits or two litres of wine, plus 60cc of perfume and 250cc of eau de toilette.


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and

Income tax in Jersey: You pay tax on all your personal taxable income at 20%. However, there are reliefs and allowances that can reduce your tax bill.

[maisymoo04]