Monday, April 23, 2007
No wonder so many volunteer for redundancy
Taking redundancy, or being made compulsory redundant in the Department of Health is a winner. In the past two years there have been 72 redundancies (56 of which were voluntary), and of those 49% of the people going took with them a payment of £100,000 or more, and presumably a whopping great pension as well. Luck bastards.
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56 volunteers? No wonder "so many" go for it. Out of zillions of workers. As for the cash amount ... Sounds like a year's salary for a GP, consultant or senior manager. Which isn't such a great lot. Normal for a redundancy really.
Now if they were a dentist it'd only be nine months. now there really ought to be an outcry if government bows to those money grubbing whatsits. Instead the great British tory public want the government to cave in to worker power.
obviously you tit the "so many" is said in relation to the percentage of voluntary redundancies compared to compulsory.
Don't you "you tit" me. The numbers are both small. Neither are so many. The ratio doesn't seem odd either. Is it??
What is the proportion of compulsory vs voluntary redundancies in other sectors? And the average pay off in other sectors.
Say the City, commercial Boardrooms, Universities ...
you tit
Chris Paul, you tit, £100,000 is not "normal for a redundancy really". Private companies no longer offer anything much above what they are legally obliged to pay. But if you are a crap CEO of a failing local hospital brought in to improve the situation and you cock it up, you get £1million. But of course, they HAVE to offer such contracts to get the "quality management".
Are you the sort of guy who will expect this kind of thing in your contract? The "quality" we are all searching for? Why is a dentist greedy for wanting to be paid at least as much as it costs for him/her to provide their service? The government offers them £8 per hygenist appointment. That is not enough to cover employing a hygenist. etc etc
Are you complaining that there are too many redundancies? I would have said not enough. Paying them to go is cheaper than paying them to stay!
My husband was made redundant from a department store and was given a pittance, about six months pay, after working there 20 years. Mens sana may be right, though.
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