(06 Jul 2022, 3:46 pm)Malarkey wrote Obviously driving and engineering staff wouldn't be getting that high of a bonus and to be honest the fact that the CEO is getting £8,333 on top of a there annual £550,000 salary is an absolute joke.

I'm not going to change my opinion on staff being treated equally at all and as example last year all staff members who worked for BT/EE were all given £1,500 bonus in June last year, £1,000 on top of that month salary as a one-off payment and the other £500 was made up of shares. All I'm saying is that why should one lot of staff at one depot be given all these perks due to their depot closing whilst staff elsewhere across the company who will also be impacted by the changes not receive those same benefits.

Furthermore what about the companies recent new recruits in Bus Drivers that have just started prior to the companies latest job advert offering £750 starting bonus on completion of training, are those staff going to get that bonus backdated because since they started the terms and conditions of employment has changed for new starters. 

I'd say that any new starters within the last 3-6 months should all be entitled to this, more so if they are currently in training now would you not agree?

This has to be one of the most ridiculous arguments made on the forum - and that is a pretty high bar!  Treating people equally to the point of utter absurdity here.  The staff at a depot that is not closing are not being impacted in anything like the way that staff at a closing depot are.  CLS staff are being forcibly required to change their base.  That would have impacts on every member of staff both finanically and in terms of work-life balance (travel time to/from work and kock on effects).  Now in some cases that impact could be negligible, in some cases positive but in a great many cases significantly negative.  The fact GNE are compensating all displaced staff for this regardless is one of the few decent things the company has done in the recent past.  To compare that to the fact someone at Washington depot might now have to drive a bus with a 71 on the front instead of 50 is just nonsense.  Those staff already employee at other depots chose* to work there and were not forced to do so by the company.  They will still collect/return their bus from the depot they are already based at, or changeovers etc will be factored into their rotas so zero impact on them financially or personal time-wise.

Backdating bonuses for a business struggling financially also slightly bonkers.  Those staff who signed up 6 months ago did so on the basis of the offer at that time.

The only point I agree with you on is that the payments to CLS staff should cover all staff at CLS whether driver, cleaner or engineering.

*yes before someone argues the point, there may be some who work at a given depot as a result of previous consolidations, however would have been subject to whatever the settlements were then