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simon goodman
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Re: Got bonus

Post by simon goodman »

I handed my notice in after the 23rd of December and should have got £225 today. I got nothing and HR services is a joke…
mlemcat
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Re: Got bonus

Post by mlemcat »

Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 12:05
The regular £100 Xmas bonus and the £100 employee share bonus. Anybody know when they will be paying the extra to part timers who did full time hours over Xmas? No mention of it this year and it’s normally done at the start of January
According to the people app, it should've been paid on Wednesday for new contracts, and today for old contracts, wouldn't surprise me though if they were just hoping people wouldn't notice it's missing...
yellowbelly
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Re: Got bonus

Post by yellowbelly »

Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 12:05
The regular £100 Xmas bonus and the £100 employee share bonus. Anybody know when they will be paying the extra to part timers who did full time hours over Xmas? No mention of it this year and it’s normally done at the start of January
DId you get 'made up' officially? If so that element of the two 'Christmas bonuses' should have been in your pay packet 15 December.

The second part that is paid some time in January is based on how many hours over your contracted hours you did in the whole
of 2023 NOT just Christmas.

LTB 314/23
The Christmas pay supplement of £100 for full time OPG and OSGs, pro-rated for part timers
and 35-hour full timers (subject to the arrangements in Section 7) will be paid on Friday 15 th
December. The eligibility criteria for the Christmas supplement payment will be the same as
last year, based on the four December weeks (commencing Monday, 20 th November). In the
event of any Industrial Action the abatement criteria will be drawn from the PBS agreement.

The separate payment of £100 (pro rata for PT and 35hr full time employees) agreed in the
National Joint Statement - New Incentive Arrangements June 2012 will also be paid on Friday,
15th December. As in previous years, any necessary top up payments for Part Time or 35 hr
Full time employees will be made in January 2024 in accordance with the actual hours worked
at standard rate, beyond contractual during 2023
CarryingMGMT
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Got bonus

Post by CarryingMGMT »

guardianangel wrote:
31 Jan 2024, 21:57
Got nothing but didn't expect anything as our walks have been well and truly butchered ,i would of had to do a 12 hour day everyday for 5 weeks to get the bonus ,i worked my ass off as usual at xmas and got nothing,how to motivate a workforce,morale is so low people now do as little as possible,great bit of management.
The beatings shall continue until morale has improved :left:
Foxel
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Got bonus

Post by Foxel »

Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 12:05
The regular £100 Xmas bonus and the £100 employee share bonus. Anybody know when they will be paying the extra to part timers who did full time hours over Xmas? No mention of it this year and it’s normally done at the start of January
I got "made up" for Christmas, the bonus was paid all at the same time and when everyone else's did. I've known them not to give it in the past. You need to chase it up.
I'm turning purple!
qwerty2
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Re: Got bonus

Post by qwerty2 »

They'll probably try this bonus next xmas
Dont fall for their crap again :thumbup
Clappedoutpostie
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Re: Got bonus

Post by Clappedoutpostie »

yellowbelly wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 17:26
Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 12:05
The regular £100 Xmas bonus and the £100 employee share bonus. Anybody know when they will be paying the extra to part timers who did full time hours over Xmas? No mention of it this year and it’s normally done at the start of January
DId you get 'made up' officially? If so that element of the two 'Christmas bonuses' should have been in your pay packet 15 December.

The second part that is paid some time in January is based on how many hours over your contracted hours you did in the whole
of 2023 NOT just Christmas.

LTB 314/23
The Christmas pay supplement of £100 for full time OPG and OSGs, pro-rated for part timers
and 35-hour full timers (subject to the arrangements in Section 7) will be paid on Friday 15 th
December. The eligibility criteria for the Christmas supplement payment will be the same as
last year, based on the four December weeks (commencing Monday, 20 th November). In the
event of any Industrial Action the abatement criteria will be drawn from the PBS agreement.

The separate payment of £100 (pro rata for PT and 35hr full time employees) agreed in the
National Joint Statement - New Incentive Arrangements June 2012 will also be paid on Friday,
15th December. As in previous years, any necessary top up payments for Part Time or 35 hr
Full time employees will be made in January 2024 in accordance with the actual hours worked
at standard rate, beyond contractual during 2023
I’m full time but some part time colleagues who did full time hours (and more) said they had not yet received the top up on their pro rata bonus.
yellowbelly
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Gender: Male

Re: Got bonus

Post by yellowbelly »

Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 22:02
yellowbelly wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 17:26
Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 12:05
The regular £100 Xmas bonus and the £100 employee share bonus. Anybody know when they will be paying the extra to part timers who did full time hours over Xmas? No mention of it this year and it’s normally done at the start of January
DId you get 'made up' officially? If so that element of the two 'Christmas bonuses' should have been in your pay packet 15 December.

The second part that is paid some time in January is based on how many hours over your contracted hours you did in the whole
of 2023 NOT just Christmas.

LTB 314/23
The Christmas pay supplement of £100 for full time OPG and OSGs, pro-rated for part timers
and 35-hour full timers (subject to the arrangements in Section 7) will be paid on Friday 15 th
December. The eligibility criteria for the Christmas supplement payment will be the same as
last year, based on the four December weeks (commencing Monday, 20 th November). In the
event of any Industrial Action the abatement criteria will be drawn from the PBS agreement.

The separate payment of £100 (pro rata for PT and 35hr full time employees) agreed in the
National Joint Statement - New Incentive Arrangements June 2012 will also be paid on Friday,
15th December. As in previous years, any necessary top up payments for Part Time or 35 hr
Full time employees will be made in January 2024 in accordance with the actual hours worked
at standard rate, beyond contractual during 2023
I’m full time but some part time colleagues who did full time hours (and more) said they had not yet received the top up on their pro rata bonus.
Your colleagues need to check their payslips to see if their hours actually got made up officially and that they got the bonus or did
they just work FT hours or more as OT. Woudn't put it past managers just to say 'Can you work extra' for Xmas and then 'forget' to make people up
or say 'I just meant as normal OT'. Now we don't get paper pay slips it's easy to forget or not notice what's happened.
Clappedoutpostie
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Re: Got bonus

Post by Clappedoutpostie »

yellowbelly wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 22:18
Your colleagues need to check their payslips to see if their hours actually got made up officially and that they got the bonus or did
they just work FT hours or more as OT. Woudn't put it past managers just to say 'Can you work extra' for Xmas and then 'forget' to make people up
or say 'I just meant as normal OT'. Now we don't get paper pay slips it's easy to forget or not notice what's happened.
No they were not officially made up just worked extra hours, in previous years the bonus just gets topped up in early Jan to reflect them working 37 hours or more. They have been keeping an eye on their payslips hence the question. I wonder if they have used some of this saving todays the upto £500 bonus.
yellowbelly
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Re: Got bonus

Post by yellowbelly »

Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 22:24
yellowbelly wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 22:18
Your colleagues need to check their payslips to see if their hours actually got made up officially and that they got the bonus or did
they just work FT hours or more as OT. Woudn't put it past managers just to say 'Can you work extra' for Xmas and then 'forget' to make people up
or say 'I just meant as normal OT'. Now we don't get paper pay slips it's easy to forget or not notice what's happened.
No they were not officially made up just worked extra hours, in previous years the bonus just gets topped up in early Jan to reflect them working 37 hours or more. They have been keeping an eye on their payslips hence the question. I wonder if they have used some of this saving todays the upto £500 bonus.
The top up in January is for the average OT (up to 37 hours) worked throughout the whole year. So although they might have worked loads of hours up to Xmas if they didn't get any/much OT during the summer then that brings the average OT throughout the whole year down and they may have barely earned anything noticeable.

You can't access payslips on the app at the moment (it's down until Tuesday for 'essential maintenance' FFS!) so I can't check either.
yellowbelly
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Re: Got bonus

Post by yellowbelly »

Clappedoutpostie wrote:
02 Feb 2024, 22:24

No they were not officially made up just worked extra hours, in previous years the bonus just gets topped up in early Jan to reflect them working 37 hours or more. They have been keeping an eye on their payslips hence the question. I wonder if they have used some of this saving todays the upto £500 bonus.
That's interesting - now the payslip app is back I've checked my payslips and there is no top up shown.

Checked last years payslip and it was paid week 41/23, 13 Jan and was listed as Incentive Underpin Payment. Wasn't enough to buy
a pint and a packet of crisps but it was what I expected from the average OT (up to 37) worked throughout the year.

This year was expecting something similar (even if only a couple of quid) but a big fat zero is curious to say the least. Don't know if I can
be arsed looking through all last years payslips to work it out.
kazardaimenu
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Re: Got bonus

Post by kazardaimenu »

Seems like RM and the Union have scrapped the underpin to put the squeeze on the long serving part timers. I doubt the new recruits receive it.
yellowbelly
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Re: Got bonus

Post by yellowbelly »

kazardaimenu wrote:
06 Feb 2024, 16:46
Seems like RM and the Union have scrapped the underpin to put the squeeze on the long serving part timers. I doubt the new recruits receive it.
The main part of the Underpin (pro-rata for me) was paid in Dec, just the top up missing.
kazardaimenu
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Re: Got bonus

Post by kazardaimenu »

yellowbelly wrote:
06 Feb 2024, 16:52
kazardaimenu wrote:
06 Feb 2024, 16:46
Seems like RM and the Union have scrapped the underpin to put the squeeze on the long serving part timers. I doubt the new recruits receive it.
The main part of the Underpin (pro-rata for me) was paid in Dec, just the top up missing.
Yes same here. Meant to say the pro rata top up. Not sure what bonus the new starts get.
Clappedoutpostie
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Re: Got bonus

Post by Clappedoutpostie »

Be nice if the CWU were looking into this.