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4 weeks per year is what I heard.
4 weeks per year is what I heard.
The tradies should be ok if they are willing to travel, but the basic production workers might find it difficult.That would be more reasonable, so the guy that was there for 15 years gets over a years pay, it will probably take him at least that long to find something else.
The tradies should be ok if they are willing to travel, but the basic production workers might find it difficult.
Not always.After 15 years you're institutionalised, very hard to fit in somewhere new.
ABC Radio reported that Ms Gillard had said "we will stand by the Toyota workers".'Apparently' does not = fact.
Really? Is that fact or are you just passing on idle hearsay?4 weeks per year is what I heard.
4th last line in this:Really? Is that fact or are you just passing on idle hearsay?
Probably won't help the sacked workers that it's been widely publicised that the fired workers are supposedly the worst performing workers.
In a purely statistical sense the proportion of union or safety reps retrenched seems way over the top. The 350 positions lost is 10% of the workforce there, but supposedly 70% of the union or safety reps have lost their jobs.On TV last night they said that a lot of them sacked was Union reps, now they sure as hell will never get a job again.
On TV last night they said that a lot of them sacked was Union reps, now they sure as hell will never get a job again.
Wel, if you were gettin rid of underperformers and mischief makers then union reps would be the first out the door.
from eagers linkUnions suggest that many of the dismissed workers were union shop stewards and health and safety representatives. They argue much of the criteria included points for so-called “Toyota values” and were not objective performance criteria.
Chief executive Max Yasuda has already made his views clear about the negative nature of the local worker culture, which he says is characterised by high absenteeism and low productivity.
Toyota is trying to build an organisational culture based on strong common objectives and a particular “Toyota way”, established half a century ago in its Japanese homeland.
Toyota say the work culture was poor.
It would not surprise me that it was more likely that the union reps and safety guys were the worst of the culture. I am not anti-union but find that some union reps have a real chip on their shoulder that does no one any good. If it was 90% I would have a concern, 70% is probably right.
They've been compensated OK. They have the right to fire employees.
People are getting too soft saying they were hard done by because of the way they were treated. It wasn't too bad. If they were smart they would have done it better though.
I know a guy who was sacked from a big accounting firm. He was told then escorted out with guards and wasn't even allowed to clear his desk! Personal stuff was sent to him in a box a few days later.
+1 on both the above posts.Wel, if you were gettin rid of underperformers and mischief makers then union reps would be the first out the door.
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