Who can feel anything less than outrage at what our colleagues in MAN are having to endure. It seems to me that, even though this would seem to be a case of departmental mismanagement, the writing is on the wall for the rest of us. The "Wet one" and his accolyte "the Peeved" will surely fall after this debacle!. . . .HOVIS--Whatever the Flight Engineers secured as a severance is entirely incidental to your predicament. If their pilot colleagues financed an enhanced severance then so be it. End of story. Remember, that as a licensed aircraft engineer you are probably more valuable in the job market than a flight Engineer. They will struggle to find work in the long term but you, god willing , will be ideally placed come the inevitable upturn.. .Support from BALPA? BALPA looks after IT'S membership and rightly so. Flight crews pay a premium for representation (1% of basic) and get the appropriate representation. Perhaps we all get the representation we deserve!. .Finally, to those employment law experts who SEEM to have all the info on compulsory redundancy payments--Is not the weekly wage figure quoted a MAXIMUM as opposed to a MINIMUM?
[ 25 January 2002: Message edited by: screwdriver ]
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