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redundancies-enhanced package

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gazzer
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Joined: 24 May 2007, 22:24

Re: redundancies-enhanced package

Post by gazzer »

How many years do you have to work to be entitled to 104 weeks pay?
Red Robbo
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Joined: 31 Jan 2012, 09:23
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Re: redundancies-enhanced package

Post by Red Robbo »

This reminds me when British Telecom was privatised the company offered "funny money" for people to leave the business and then employed agency staff on zero contracts.
dvbuk55
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Joined: 02 Jun 2007, 19:17
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Re: redundancies-enhanced package

Post by dvbuk55 »

Red Robbo wrote:This reminds me when British Telecom was privatised the company offered "funny money" for people to leave the business and then employed agency staff on zero contracts.
No worries there the CWU has it all under control this time :whistle
baldrick
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Re: redundancies-enhanced package

Post by baldrick »

gazzer wrote:How many years do you have to work to be entitled to 104 weeks pay?
It depends on your age, at 59 you need 19 years service.
At 57/58 you need 20 years.
At 55/56 you need 21 years.
At 53/54 it's 22 years.
At 51/52 it's 23 years.
At 49/50 it's 24 years.
At 47/48 it's 25 years.
At 46 it's 27 years.
But remember if you are 55 or over and still paying into an RM pension you will only get 26 weeks plus immediate payment of accrued pension, slightly enhanced.
baldrick
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Re: redundancies-enhanced package

Post by baldrick »

Red Robbo wrote:This reminds me when British Telecom was privatised the company offered "funny money" for people to leave the business and then employed agency staff on zero contracts.
RM isn't offering funny money though, just MTSF2 terms plus 13 weeks Pay in Lieu of Notice, if certain conditions are met. They used to give PILON with VR/EVR a few years back for uniformed grades, but then stopped it except for managers who still get it.

Edit: I remember, it must be at least 25 years ago, when VR/EVR was offered in my mc and people who had expressed an interest were just called off the floor, told their VR figures, and asked if they wanted to accept and if they did they could sign and leave immediately with PILON if they wanted to. Which many did.
I can't remember when they stopped PILON for uniformed grades but I think it was relatively recently, in the last few years.