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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
From the link provided by Top banana;
"Scott Maynard, the City Link human resources director, said his company had been consulting with front line staff since June to make pay and conditions “fairer and more equitable”
“At the moment we are in the position where colleagues doing the same job in the same depot are getting paid different wages. This is a legacy that the current management team has inherited and is one we believe is fundamentally unfair,” said Maynard. |
Ah, that age old tactic. See, what you do is change the terms and conditions for new staff to be worse than the existing staff and after a certain period you then have a lot of staff on the new terms (depends on how high your turnover is) and you then claim that it's 'unfair' that staff are on different terms/pay than others. Conveniently ignoring the fact you made it unfair yourself, you move the blame onto the people with the better T&C's as it's obviously their fault and they are the fat cats with the better pay and pensions.
This then becomes your platform to whittle away at everyone's pay and conditions, all in the name of fairness. If you can make the people with the worse conditions slightly better off while still also reducing the overall cost then the workforce will do the job for you.
City Link had another, rhyming name, but it would breach the forum rules.