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27K Pa For The Steel Workers
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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
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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