So, this thread was about Pay 2009. I believe that RPI should be paid to those who stay in the company, but we need to keep the good people and lose the shirkers. The unions imho have the wrong attitude here and insist on voluntary redundancies. Nonsense, we all know the workers from the shirkers. Let’s have the cull. Why should I have a future where I have to work longer hours with more stress because the company have allowed some of my best colleagues to go. Yes, we may cut workload appropriately, but no doubt some bright spark will then say let’s work 30% faster and so the cycle starts again.
Mgt may look at all the comments on NATSNET from staff suggesting 3 day weeks and part-time working etc and look at the depts that these people work in. If they can suggest such a thing then they aint as busy as me and my colleagues.
This is of course about ‘managing staff expectations for pay award’. Maybe we should start ‘managing customer expectations’.