Redundancy Payments

[Highlander]

The Highland Council have had 800 employees apply for voluntary redundancy.

My question is why should government employees be entitled to more lucrative redundancy than the general public.

Serious response would be appreciated.

[pops]

Simple answer......They shouldn't be.

[AOK]

Are they more lucrative? In What way  

[tuzlachap]

What has this to do with Calis or Turkey.
Surely this kind of post would be more applicable on a truly Scottish forum.

Sadly CBF seems to attract more and more  non "Turkish"specific posts these days.(just as this reply).

Take today's posts for instance, at present (9:15 am) there are 17 posts, 12 of which are nothing to do with Turkey.

TC 

[bewva]

They shouldn't be but they have obviously added an incentive to get people to take up the VR.
Obviously with 800 volunteers the incentive is very good.

[JohnF]

What has this to do with Calis or Turkey.
Surely this kind of post would be more applicable on a truly Scottish forum.

Sadly CBF seems to attract more and more  non "Turkish"specific posts these days.(just as this reply).

Take today's posts for instance, at present (9:15 am) there are 17 posts, 12 of which are nothing to do with Turkey.

TC 

Official response:  The content and makeup of both forum posters and content posted evolves over the years - there's nothing wrong with that, it's just the way of online forums.  Given the number of folks previously resident in Turkey who are leaving/have left it's hardly surprising that the topics posted reflect that shift.

Personal response: If it bothers you that much why don't you (metaphorically speaking) get off your arse and redress the balance by starting topics you feel are more suitable.

JF

[JohnF]

My question is why should government employees be entitled to more lucrative redundancy than the general public.

Ludicrous statement.  Voluntary redundancy schemes, by virtue of their nature, must be lucrative else no-one would apply - this is true of all sectors of industry, public or otherwise.

JF

[sadler]

During my lengthy career with EssexCC Education Dept, I was involved with numerous redundancy procedures. Without exception, every person taking redundancy was given the statutory pay out. I only came across "golden handshakes" if an employee was in a position to resign or be dismissed, and that was to avoid much more costly legal proceedings!

[Highlander]

Ludicrous statement.  Voluntary redundancy schemes, by virtue of their nature, must be lucrative else no-one would apply - this is true of all sectors of industry, public or otherwise.

JF

My question was more lucrative

[JohnF]

Ludicrous statement.  Voluntary redundancy schemes, by virtue of their nature, must be lucrative else no-one would apply - this is true of all sectors of industry, public or otherwise.

JF

My question was more lucrative

Your evidence that they are more lucrative than the private sector?

JF