Below is a good part of an email sent to a colleague, the email was a response to announcement by AmeyColas that they wanted to shed about 19 staff on the LNW. The chief criteria that I'm aware of is that staff live 90 miles or more from Bletchley depot. But it appears that some who got letters about the redundancies from AmeyColas are inside that distance.
So it begs some questions, distance alone doesn't seem to be the sole reason that some have been offered the opportunity to go for voluntary redundancy.
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They really don't have a clue about our T+C's! It's actually comical that they believe it will cost the company money if we choose to stay in accommodation nearer Bletchley depot!
The fact is at the moment we receive £5 a day subsistence allowance and £18 per day mobility allowance this was a payment Grant rail agreed with the unions to encourage us to travel from home to different sites in a large area often more than eighty miles or we could receive £23 per day lodging allowance If we choose to lodge nearer a depot(we are site based),simple maths states that this is at no extra cost to AmeyColas.
As for the "safety implications " of us travelling in excess of 80 miles i would like to state that that we are willing to travel any where we our asked to go! That includes Mansfield last week and Birmingham next week. All in a days work for me.
It seems to me that are terms and conditions don't suit , not our geographical location.
Just for the record my home address to Bletchley is under 80 miles . I think you get the idea
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If they had opened it to all track staff in the gangs, and not just a specific group, they might had found that some folk would have bit their hands off at the chance of going with a wedge.
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