Redundancy & FRI's! Why?
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Redundancy & FRI's! Why?
I am glad that manning is as pi$$es off as me to hear while so many of us are facing redundancy, or not being signed on, post SDSR, the SAR boy w@nkers are being offered a 50K FRI. If I'm not mistaken it was a SAR boy who caused the privatisation to fall through in the first place.
There must be enough of us in the system who don't want redundancy to replace them as they leave, or even lay on a fast track OCU.
This is simply another waste of public money!
There must be enough of us in the system who don't want redundancy to replace them as they leave, or even lay on a fast track OCU.
This is simply another waste of public money!
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SAR Redundancy followed by a handshake into SAR-H as a civvy I'd guess?
The MOD will need that 50k to upgrade their Sea Kings!
Not good times to be part of what was once the worlds finest Military.
The MOD will need that 50k to upgrade their Sea Kings!
Not good times to be part of what was once the worlds finest Military.
bighead - where did that hot rumour come from?
Apparently it's £100K for QHIs
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If they want a Sea King line pilot, all they have to do is issue the order. I await instructions.
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Do I Hear 90k?
"A Merlin Mk 3 QHI tells me they may be offered £125k, with £75k for QHCIs!"
If there is a nice car and a generous allowances package thrown in I might be tempted to re join.
If there is a nice car and a generous allowances package thrown in I might be tempted to re join.
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It seems FRI or not, the SAR force is desperate to recruit an extra 7 crews to fill the hole after the CG interim contract expires.
There is even chat of training merlin crews to fill in. I bet a 50k FRI, although seemingly ill timed, would be a cheap way of maintaining the current capability.
There is even chat of training merlin crews to fill in. I bet a 50k FRI, although seemingly ill timed, would be a cheap way of maintaining the current capability.
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Why would you pay a FRI to anyone when there are no jobs for them to leave for? 
Surely a Retention Bonus is there to stop you going outside for better paid work. There is no work so why waste money on keeping people from leaving who don't want to leave anyway?
Not to mention the redundancy numbers. Perhaps it is a Redundancy and not a Retention Incentive?
Careful what you wish for.
Surely a Retention Bonus is there to stop you going outside for better paid work. There is no work so why waste money on keeping people from leaving who don't want to leave anyway?
Not to mention the redundancy numbers. Perhaps it is a Redundancy and not a Retention Incentive?
Careful what you wish for.
An organisation that is making more than 25% of it's incredibly carefully and competitively selected and recruited aircrew trainees redundant, while preparing to make a further cut of some thousands in it's work force, that will include many more aircrew, at the same time as it prepares to pay out £100k plus retention incentives, is broken, pure and simple.
No wonder you can't keep anything within budget.
No wonder you can't keep anything within budget.
Proone,
if the RAF was a widget factory with everyone employed producing widgets, then I would agree with you entirely. Widget demand down, widget workers made redundant.
However, the RAF has a number of capabilities [not as many as once had] and is reducing those capabilities. So, it needs to shed x number of y trade, and so on.
At the same time it needs to maintain, if not expand, some capabilities. Often, these capabilities are in hard hit pinch points with a fair old turnover of people. Everything is kept together by a thin veneer of experience, with dilution rates lapping away at their ankles.
If they go, things will go downhill rapidly. At the same time, the RAF has a pay freeze, chopped allowances and is making noises about pensions. That thin veneer realises how hard they are working, and how poorly placed they are.
They leave.
Pasptoo -
Don't give me that crap about no jobs to go to. You are either unemployable, or not looking hard enough if you can't find a half decent job right now.
if the RAF was a widget factory with everyone employed producing widgets, then I would agree with you entirely. Widget demand down, widget workers made redundant.
However, the RAF has a number of capabilities [not as many as once had] and is reducing those capabilities. So, it needs to shed x number of y trade, and so on.
At the same time it needs to maintain, if not expand, some capabilities. Often, these capabilities are in hard hit pinch points with a fair old turnover of people. Everything is kept together by a thin veneer of experience, with dilution rates lapping away at their ankles.
If they go, things will go downhill rapidly. At the same time, the RAF has a pay freeze, chopped allowances and is making noises about pensions. That thin veneer realises how hard they are working, and how poorly placed they are.
They leave.
Pasptoo -
Don't give me that crap about no jobs to go to. You are either unemployable, or not looking hard enough if you can't find a half decent job right now.