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Old 12-06-2014, 04:22 PM   #1
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Old 12-06-2014, 04:31 PM   #2
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Old 12-06-2014, 05:42 PM   #3
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I wonder how they will decide who gets a forced redundency and who does'nt.....As artcile says alot a hanging on because forced redundency pays more.
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Old 13-06-2014, 07:32 AM   #4
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I wonder how they will decide who gets a forced redundency and who does'nt.....As artcile says alot a hanging on because forced redundency pays more.
I'm not sure what you mean? They'll all been forced redundency between now & the end of Oct 2016!!
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Old 13-06-2014, 05:17 PM   #5
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I'm not sure what you mean? They'll all been forced redundency between now & the end of Oct 2016!!
Yes but i'm asking who will get made redundent in July? How will they nominate who goes and who stays until 2016.
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Old 13-06-2014, 05:21 PM   #6
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Yes but i'm asking who will get made redundent in July? How will they nominate who goes and who stays until 2016.
By who's needed and who isn't.
If it's between two or three people in a particular role, they'll keep the best performer out of them. Or boot the poorest performer.
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By who's needed and who isn't.
If it's between two or three people in a particular role, they'll keep the best performer out of them. Or boot the poorest performer.
Ye i suppose so. Time for everyone to pick up their game in the Ford factories then.
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Old 13-06-2014, 09:00 PM   #8
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Yes but i'm asking who will get made redundent in July? How will they nominate who goes and who stays until 2016.
They have a criteria they work to, like a ranking system. Skills, attendance, willingness to learn, versatility, attitude etc.

But at the end of the day, despite their denial's, there has to be a bit of personal opinion of who they like and who they don't. It's human nature.

We will all know next Friday.
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They have a criteria they work to, like a ranking system. Skills, attendance, willingness to learn, versatility, attitude etc.

But at the end of the day, despite their denial's, there has to be a bit of personal opinion of who they like and who they don't. It's human nature.

We will all know next Friday.
We used to have the same thing across all the apprentices and no matter how good or bad we were, once we got a rating it never changed, it was the same every month regardless of your performance.

We got rated out of 100 and I couldn't get out of the 70-75 bracket where as one of the other guys got stuck in the 50s and no matter what either of us did we would never make it up to the next bracket and the comments were always the same.

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By who's needed and who isn't.
If it's between two or three people in a particular role, they'll keep the best performer out of them. Or boot the poorest performer.
Doesn't work like that in big companies, its all a big game of politics.
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Old 14-06-2014, 01:35 PM   #10
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But at the end of the day, despite their denial's, there has to be a bit of personal opinion of who they like and who they don't. It's human nature.
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Ford will move all production to Thailand/Malaysia and then war will break out and dealers won't be able to get any stock.
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Problem will be ISIS in Iraq controlling the oil fields.what did it achieve sending our
troops there??
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problem will be isis in iraq controlling the oil fields.what did it achieve sending our
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Wow old news and the subject matter turns to war ... righto then
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Old 13-06-2014, 09:39 AM   #15
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Whilst the redundancies may be old news, the actual news is not enough people took the voluntary redundancies so Ford is now forcing them.

Unsure of the relevance to Iraq and Thailand. Some people need to lay off the alcohol.
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Old 14-06-2014, 03:43 PM   #16
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Hope you guys and girls working there in the firing line are looked after in either case and are given the assistance you should be. No one likes to see anyone being put out of work.

My only lament is that maybe the number of Falcon and Territory sales would be higher right now if upper management got around to the model facelift a bit earlier - therefore keeping your jobs more secure. I honestly hope that come the release of the facelift models there is a tsunami of orders and you're all rushed off your feet keeping up!
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Old 14-06-2014, 06:53 PM   #17
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Hope you guys and girls working there in the firing line are looked after in either case and are given the assistance you should be.
I assume the redundancy packages will be quite generous, as they are at Holden/Toyota.
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Old 15-06-2014, 05:55 PM   #18
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I assume the redundancy packages will be quite generous, as they are at Holden/Toyota.
Yes they're generous but money does'nt seem to last very long these days......I hope any workers made redundent find new work asap and dont hang around living of their redundency packages.

Unfortuneatly I think some a going to find it hard to find new work so ther is tough times ahead for some especaily those down in Geelong.
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