All those personnel below Officer level passing the four year service point will have access to the new Commitment Bonus scheme from next year. The longer they serve the higher the payment will be. The scheme is designed to reward past service and to encourage further retention in the critical four to eight year period, where we face the greatest retention challenge
...... after which point we will no longer be in govt so we can blame it on the other lot when everyone leaves.
Does smack somewhat of 'the officer class' not being worthy of recognition or the government really being keen on retaining our services. Which would be typical of this bunch of Scottish socialists (I always thought this government was a wolf in sheep's clothing) who want to do all they can for the 'workers' and everyone else can be damned.
The real kick in the teeth here is for those of us at SO3 level. We are expected to look after those below us. The senior officers on their career & staff college pushes only seem interested in looking after themselves. So just who is looking after the JOs? Given today's announcment, it would appear that we still have to look after ourselves because no other bugger is interested in us. And looking at some of the Arrse threads in recent months, it appears a large number of their SO3s have been looking after themselves and walking.
Still never mind, got another 4 months in the sandpit to look forward to this summer - 4th in 5 yrs - all that time sitting in the shelters with my kevlar on will give me the opportunity to work out why all the past service I and those like me have put in isn't worthy of financial recognition and an encouragement to stay.
And what are the odds of everyone getting this 'retention bonus' - down to the fat airman in stores who doesn't even own a passport let alone go on det and whose repeated fitness test failures are probably such an admin burden we could do well without him. It just makes you want to scream sometimes.