27K Pa For The Steel Workers

[webbo3]

https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1833888944028565898

An annual payment of £27,000 will be given to thousands of workers being made redundant at Britain's biggest steelworks under the government intervention to reduce the fallout from closure.

But no money for the oldies

[davebro3]

£27k pa. for how long?

Re-training? What as Barristas?

[webbo3]

Exactly what I thought, normally a redundancy payment is a one off plus help with retraining.

[Hopkirk]

It's not per annum, it's for one year.

[Togo]

Starmer is going to fill the black hole with dead pensioners. 

[bednobs]

isnt that how redundancy payments work - you get a payment because you're being made redundant?

[douglas9401]

Most boggle eyed header for a thread EVER!

Utter drivel.

[barry1010]

Why should Tata pay pensioners anything?

A training programme for laid off staff will be offered and funded by Tata. While on the scheme people will be on full pay for the first month and £27,000 for the following 11 months.

[newmodarmy]

To be fair to Webbo the original Sky News headline story was misleading as it  also referred to it £27000 pa, although the heading has now been changed. The article went on to explain it was a redundancy payment  (2.8 weeks' pay per year of service, up to a maximum of 25 years subject to minimum of £20000 for full timers) plus a training programme for laid off staff: while on the scheme people will be on full pay for the first month and £27,000 for the following 11 months.

No mention now of anything thereafter.

[newmodarmy]

Even now the Sky News article is ambiguous/misleading. It still says "An annual payment of £27,000 will be given to thousands of workers being made redundant at Britain's biggest steelworks under the government intervention to reduce the fallout from closure."

It's understandable that some should interpret an annual payment as being per annum, when in fact it's just for one year

[douglas9401]

Maybe worth taking a few seconds to read the article rather than just the headline then.

[theshedman]

After they shut down all of our blast furnaces where will we get all of our top quality steel from as the best and cleanest steel comes from this type of furnace.  Does it mean we have to get it from the EU who wanted to shut ours down so the ones in Germany and Holland their favoured ones sell it to us or will we get it from other countries that make it this way.

[newmodarmy]

//Maybe worth taking a few seconds to read the article rather than just the headline then.//

See my post at 8:19.

It's poorly written. 

 

 

[newmodarmy]

^It's the article that's poorly written, not my post!

[newmodarmy]

And same applies here- read webbo's OP, not just his title.

[newmodarmy]

https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1833888944028565898

[Canary42]

My word, such envy from the Tory supporters - towards the unfortunate workers' financial support, yet you accuse Labour of the politics of envy. 

The Compassionate Conservatives of course would have just dumped the workers on the scrap heap.

[theshedman]

Canary42, it is not just the workers in the steel works that will suffer through this.  Many in the town and surrounding area all rely on the place.  I have had relatives that worked there including my late father for a number of years.  The place needs updating but if they were to keep at least one blast furnace then we would not have to buy the best steel from abroad because we could make it ourselves.

[bednobs]

also, isnt this payment coming from their employer?  the govtjust persuaded them to up it a bit?

these anti-government posts are becomingjust as tiresome as gulliver's anti-govt rants (ie not much substance)

[nicebloke1]

If you've gone through your working life throwing your money away and ignoring retirment planning thats your choice. Anyhow I've never ever seen any media report of any pensioner freeze or starve to death in this country, have you?

[THECORBYLOON]

From the Sky News website, 

"A training programme for laid off staff will be offered and funded by Tata. While on the scheme people will be on full pay for the first month and £27,000 for the following 11 months."

"Minimum redundancy payments of £15,000 pro-rota[sic] will be offered plus a payment of £5,000 will be given to redundant workers."

The higher amount will be paid only to those on the training scheme.