No doubt like thousands of other Lunn Poly employees I found your article on the Thomson director’s salary and bonus payments for 1998 fascinating (Travel Weekly April 5). I totally agree with your comments about how difficult a task it is to justify these payments to the rank and file workers and I’ll tell you why it will be such a difficult task.
Lunn Poly has just had its annual salary review and staff will know what they have been awarded for the coming year.
The salary review is based on your individual performance for the past year and you are graded on a scale of one to six, one being a poor performance and six being outstanding.
For those Lunn Poly employees who achieved the top level of performance Icongratulate you wholeheartedly because I know how hard you must have worked to achieve this award. On the other hand I commiserate with you because we now know that your increase for this outstanding achievement was a mere 5.5%. Yes, 5.5%.
Take a typical sales consultant salary of ú10,000 per year and this adds a massive ú550- or ú46 per month before tax!
Our ex-managing director Ian Smith gives a heart wrenching message in which he pays tribute to the fantastic teamwork and hard work throughout 1998. On behalf of all Lunn Poly employees I would like to thank Ian for his kind wishes and his parting gesture of agreeing such a rewarding pay review to staff in Lunn Poly’s record year.
From a Lunn Poly employee who is distributing CVs.
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