When people leave or retire what happens to the budget?

[greynut]

We are again starting a revision of our office. The DOM has said he needs 10% in cuts. Thats 2.5 duties basically. Now, we have had 4 people leave this year not to be replaced. 2 retired, one sadly died and the other was sent to another office on a misconduct issue.

Now my argument is as they have not been replaced and we have phased 3 when we have been able to, why should we cut duties again when these four have not been replaced. We have not had a manager for 2-3 years, another saving. Yet we haven t seen one penny of the so called 50/50 bonus scheme?

Maybe someone could answer these questions for me?

When these people leave/retire/die etc and are not replaced should we see some sort of 50/50 bonus payment. I mean they were part of last years total budget. Now if they have gone and have not been replaced that is surely as saving.

Likewise with the manager? Thats about £26000 per year saving isn t it?

Or as I suspect is the DOM and senior managers not recruiting to show a saving at the end of this financial year to increase their bonuses?

I would like to know because I am due to sit on the new revision and would like to bring these points up. :mfo

[dvbuk55]

Yes the 50/50 bonus - what a con that was. We lost umpteen hours to part time duties and full time duties on geo route and never a penny was seen - probably because the overtime had the arse booked off it.

[axeman]

more like the senior managers are fiddling and using ghost hours

[DGP1]

All the previous reductions have been absorbed into budget cuts already (we've lost 7 FT staff and only had them replaced by 20hr people and yet our budget is still through the roof), plus, all those years that mail 'was' increasing we never got any increase in staffing/budget but now we've 'falling' volumes we suddenly need massive cuts in staffing the figures just don't add.

[darth]

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin



i always think that quotation reminds me of royal mail particulary when it comes to the budget,you cannot get a straight answer ,previous revisions with people leaving has always counted yet recently it hasnt. we have had two people f/t leave in the last month yet our overspend is consistant with what it was before they left.the revision which the manager wants to introduce doesnt change anyones hours its all juggled but essentially no one has left and their hours remain yet it supposedly going to save 250 hrs???if you count the duties that have gone and been absorbed(hasnt been accepted though) it saves hours as a paper exercise so unless there is compulsory redundancies is not going to work.one thing the dom wants to stop is o/t as his budget is based on the none booking of o/t.i remember when sdd came in we stopped o/t until we got our bonus and were always reminded that we fixed it ,yet they want to do that all the time, if they get their way.