Of course it is relevant. With T&C's sharply eroded,goal posts being shifted all the time. The pressure is going to build up somewhere.Even if its putting a budget on the family it all causes problems.The 5% is only the confirmed ones what about all the other cases on the way?
I to have seen cases where management have really gone out of their way to help guys who have had tradgedy strike them and for that they need to be commended. It is now time for them to fix the day to day concerns of the work force, and we can only hope that this in some way improves morale.