Bord Na Móna Workers seek Compensation for Lost "Bonuses"

Uriel.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0430/bordnamona.html

Bord na Móna is facing losses of over €9m in gross peat sales to the ESB after a move to go ahead with a five-month closure of a power station in the midlands.
Lough Ree Power in Lanesborough Co Longford is closing later today for a boiler upgrade after experiencing repeated difficulties with corroded piping since it was opened just five years ago.
Local workers are seeking compensation for the loss of thousands of euro in bonus payments normally paid at peak harvest time.



Overhauls at ESB power stations are regular events but what is happening at the Lough Ree power plant in Co Longford this weekend is exceptional.
This peat burning station cost over €250m to build in 2005 but has already been closed once on health and safety grounds and now needs a new boiler upgrade after significant corrosion.
The ESB took legal moves to have the work done by the original contractor and says the commercial details of that settlement are confidential.
Bord na Móna workers at Lough Ree power claim they will lose significant bonus payments because of the closure and they have already voted against a re-deployment package offered by the company.

My God!!!

Even if we weren't in a recession etc... this is another example of the pure mental mindset of some Irish Workers. The company they work for temporarily loses a contract due to matters beyond their control and the workers look for compensation due to lost bonuses!!! What the HELL!!!

They aren't even getting a wage cut or being made redundant or even going on short time. The company even provides an opportunity for them to redeploy elsewhere... and they vote against it - which you know, is fine and all if they can't or don't want to move - but then to look for compensation for non payment of a bonus - they won't have earned???

I guess the concept of what a bonus actually is, is lost on some... now where's that "weeping" emoticon....

danman

ThEy want compensation for not getting an allowance?
Who do they think they are, Guards?

Liam Byrne

danman wrote: »

ThEy want compensation for not getting an allowance?
Who do they think they are, Guards?

It's a mindset of "entitlement" that starts at Leinster House.

Sickening, really, considering most of us don't even get compensation for lost wages, let alone lost never-guaranteed bonuses.

Head The Wall

Uriel. wrote: »

I guess the concept of what a bonus actually is, is lost on some... now where's that "weeping" emoticon....

Here you go

Are these actually bonus payments though or overtime payments. It mentions PEAK so I would presume they do more hours as opposed to doing more work in the same time. This only happens in outer space etc

More madness and entitlement

BlaasForRafa

Head The Wall wrote: »

Here you go

Are these actually bonus payments though or overtime payments. It mentions PEAK so I would presume they do more hours as opposed to doing more work in the same time. This only happens in outer space etc

More madness and entitlement

It dosen't really matter if its bonus payments or overtime payments though, neither are guaranteed payments. Overtime is only done if there is work there to do and bonuses are only paid if profits are made, except perhaps if you live in the lala-land that some PS and semi-state workers seem to live in.

dan_d

It's the entitlement mindset we have allowed to develop, and our unions foster. I've said it before - we want all the rights, with none of the responsibilities. It could yet be our downfall - it's come close to it in the last year.

changes

Our own finance minister did nothing to help this mindset when he allowed the higher paid civil servants avoid paycuts because they were no longer getting their bonus.

That was a real mess up.

I'd say if you seen what some of them bord na mona guys are taking home every week it'd make your eyes water... much like the ESB

Goldenquick

Hmmmm wonder if my husband could claim for compensation for contracts lost by his company which resulted in him & most of his colleagues being made redundant.

Sleepy

I really can't muster a civilised response to this.

bonzos

welcome to ireland:rolleyes:

langdang

Back from the grave especially for April Fool's day
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0401/bordnamona.html

the groutch

for peat's sake!

they should have been told to sod off.