Recent press reports describing the redundancy packages offered by the Brenninkmeyer family (owners of the C&A chain of stores) as generous are laughable.
After a decade of working in a local store, employees will receive the princely sum of £5 for every week worked during that period.
Although this is double the statutory payment the Government lays down, it is hardly generous.
I am also wondering if the decision to pull out of the UK before 2001 had anything to do with the EU ruling due to come into force in April next year, which states employees made redundant must receive £1,000 for every year worked in the company?
-J.M. Humphrey, Hollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton
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