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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Any payments made to former Woolworths staff through this scheme will ultimately come from the National Insurance Fund ie the fund that we pay into to meet the cost of non means tested social security benefits.
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Originally Posted by Peter_
That will not apply above though so a separate issue.
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since the company (namely VM) is still trading then VM will foot the bill for any redundancy payments.If VM where insolvent then any redundancy payments would be paid from the national insurance fund and dealt with by the DTI .
There is no special redundancy payments for union members only
.The unions will negotiate on behalf of all workers not just members .The case with Woolworths is a matter of interpretation of the redundancy law as all those payments are being made by the National Insurance fund .The union is merely highlighting a perceived injustice