oicur, Since the SARS freeze, we've all negotiated EBAs with pay rises but we'll never get back the 3-5% lost by the freeze. We don't get shares anymore. I don't know why and we haven't had them for the last couple of years. Some people say that the company reckon there is a 'tax' issue. The only issue I can see is that when they 'paid' me $1K, I only got about $600 in the bank. That was also $1K flat whether you earnt $15K or $500K.