Why so much (3 yrs)notice ? The company (government) Will loose so much more money as employees won't give a sh*t!! They will all be milking thier sick/carer days, become more lithagic at work and unproductive.
WTF?
The next trick of our glorious banks will be to charge us a fee for using net bank!!! You are no longer customer, you are property!!!
Why is tax money going to retrenched workers of a private company?
Depends on how it is spent, doesn't it? If it is invested in retraining to get them productively into other industries, and it actually works, it will be money well-spent.
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. --Gloria Steinem AREPS™
Depends on how it is spent, doesn't it? If it is invested in retraining to get them productively into other industries, and it actually works, it will be money well-spent.
So they're on the bone of their arse 'n simply can't afford ta pay for their own retraining themselves - Despite having had jobs - Often for a long time?
Makes me wonder MIW?
A Professional Demographer to an amateur demographer:"negative natural increase will never outweigh the positive net migration"
So they're on the bone of their arse 'n simply can't afford ta pay for their own retraining themselves - Despite having had jobs - Often for a long time?
Makes me wonder MIW?
I was thinking more about the good of the state rather than the good of the individual. Better to have them retrained than on the dole. And of course the $50M could also be spent on making training opportunities available.
Sometimes people will get off their arse if you prod them, as well.....
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. --Gloria Steinem AREPS™
There's every chance the end of the Aussie-made Commodore doesn't also signal the end of the world. In no particular order, here's an attempt to put a little perspective into whirlwind:
While Ford is losing 1200 jobs when it stops screwing nuts on bolts, it has said it will keep 1500. That puts the direct manufacturing task in some perspective. The greater value-add in manufacturing is just about everything except the actual manufacturing.
Local parts makers dependent on local production have had plenty of warning to diversify and the smarter ones have been doing just that. Of course losing a key customer hurts, but there's a lesson here that there is only one market and it's global. No business can afford to be dependent on a single customer. Again, it's the "thinking" bit of manufacturing that's where the money is – the bits can be churned out wherever the quality/costs equation best works.
While many GMH employees on relatively high wages for manufacturing roles will find it hard to retrain and land jobs nearly as good, the unspoken reality is that many others at Holden (and Ford) will effectively be winning the lottery. The TV news stories always concentrate on the hard luck stories, not on the workers who were close to retirement or trying something else anyway and will now cop a rich and concessionally-taxed redundancy payment, some of them a hefty six figures. The usual line, "I've given the company 30 years and now they kick me out", is simply wrong. You've been paid well by the company for 30 years and now you're being paid especially well to leave.
Remember the Newcastle experience: losing a major employer doesn't have to be a regional disaster. BHP closing its Newcastle steel works was billed as a catastrophe – now Newcastle wouldn't want a steel works if you gave it to them. (Clive Palmer tried to once in a typical bit of funny business with other people's money, but that's another story.)
There's been a tendency to assume Toyota will surely go if Holden goes – it well might, but it's by no means certain if something near the current level of subsidies remain. Toyota tends to have a longer and more strategic view of its global business and production. The Australian dollar might be prohibitively high today, but it might not be in a few years. Don't count your closures until their latched.
The touted number of jobs at risk sounds large, but is actually a small percentage of the 11.6 million Australians currently employed.
Australia in 2017 won't be like Australia in 2013. Whether it will be better or worse, we're yet to find out, but we remain a rich, relatively well-educated nation with plenty of upside for doing whatever we do better than we do it now.There's not much point bemoaning the inevitable. Manufacturing cars in Australia simply does not add up – a small, extremely competitive local market with high costs and a stubbornly strong currency. For General Motors, Australian manufacture barely rates as a problem, it's just a distraction.
Contrary to the knee-jerk reaction of politicians, no town or region is owed a living – industries and regions are forever in the process of rising and falling. Sometimes the freed-up human capital of one failing venture becomes an opportunity for another to start. Sometimes people just have to face the lack of opportunity in one place and move to where there is more. Spare me any attempt to manufacture nostalgia about South Australia's Elizabeth.
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