Just curious as to what your employer offers in terms of Long Service awards Mine hasn't changed the award in all the time I've worked there 10 years £100 15 years £150 20 years £200 etc I think it's pretty poor
Long service awards?I've never hung around long enough to find out... That said,I've lasted 8 weeks in my latest conquest so at the very least I expect a gold rolex...
Footnote for the above job I'm currently being 'used' in,it's a whisky bottling plant!! I'm desperately trying to hang on until X.mas to see if I get a bottle for **** all...
5 yrs = £500 10 = £1000 15 =£1500 Keeps going up £500 every 5yrs etc. We give extra holiday days every couple of years. Once you've been there 10yrs you get 50 days a year ( you can sell long service days back if you want each year ) Lump sum on retirement depending on years service. Tbf all that is on top of absolutely fantastic company benefits as well.
For 25 years service with East Riding Council (Humberside), I received two brandy glasses, engraved with the ERYCC motif! I could have chosen a framed print of HORNSEA beach. They were probably worth around a tenner ( I edited this amount after getting Mrs A’s view). I retired last year after 34 years and never received anything else for long service.
The guy I work with clicked up 30 years . They gave him nothing so 2 weeks later he said do you know I've been here 30 years ? They said you should have told us we would have got some biscuits and buns in .
Honestly, it really is! There's obviously stuff that's frustrates the hell out of me and that could/should change. But the important bits are top notch and they do everything possible to make the employees comfortable, well looked after and comfortable in retirement with a absolutely fantastic pension scheme.
BAE did awards nights for 21 years and 42 years service, didn't quite make the 42 year one. I think we got an extra day holiday at some point for service as well. Not sure of the value of award but you always made more on the share schemes. I'd be interested in how good your workplaces were on reward & recognition as BAE handled this very badly?
30 years self employed. Never missed a day trhough illness. Never late Never took a tea break or lunch break. No holiday pay. No pension. Long service award? Your having a laugh.
Most global companies do employee share schemes, BAE always had discounted schemes as well as paying a few hundred free shares on results days, they also gave us PRP bonuses but these were for all employees across all sites, that's both hard workers and the passengers we carried as you do in large companies, where they fell down was on recognising individual over & above efforts locally at Brough particularly as we downsized, a great environment for the scivers amongst us, not so great for the more diligent engineers, sadly it became toxic, they'd let too many good people go through VR and most of the sicknotes stayed to the end as they were on such a good thing so a great company but very poor people management (HR) at Brough in my experience.
I work in the civil service. I’m coming up to 25 years service and I get a certificate. Not worth the paper it’s written on. I’m constantly told that it’s the recognition that employees value, but I think Howden has just put that theory to bed.
