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Rolls-Royce Employees Rejects Company’s Bonus Offer

  • Barbara Kelly
  • June 27, 2022
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The company’s offer of a £2,000 one-time payment to aid its employees with the growing cost of living has been rejected by the union that represents Rolls-Royce employees. At Rolls-Royce, 11,000 of the 14,000 employees qualified for the award are unionized.

The proposal “falls well short of the real cost of living problems which our members are confronting,” according to Unite. However, the offer was “fair” and “a decent deal” for the workforce, according to Rolls-Royce.

The lump amount, which was earmarked for entry-level management and shop floor employees, was scheduled to start rolling out in August, starting with the 3,000 non-unionized Rolls-Royce employees before being paid to the remaining 11,000 unionized workers.

According to Unite’s regional secretary Paresh Patel, the union is still in talks with Rolls-Royce regarding the pay offer.

On Monday night, the offer was announced, and Rolls-Royce later confirmed it. Backdated to March, Rolls-Royce had offered a wage raise of 4%. It would be “the greatest annual salary boost for at least a decade,” a Rolls-Royce representative told the BBC for its shop floor employees. Unite rejected the offer.

A representative for Rolls-Royce stated that ongoing negotiations with unions regarding a salary settlement for 2022–2023 are taking place and that the cost of living issue will be taken into consideration.

Unite turned down the proposal, and the spokesperson responded as follows: “This is a fair and advantageous agreement for our coworkers, one that includes a lump sum payment of cash right away to support them in the difficult economic times they are currently experiencing. Conversations with our people will continue.”

115,000 Royal Mail employees are currently deciding on a similar salary dispute. The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which is the union that many Royal Mail employees belong to, announced that it would be requesting an “inflation-based, no-strings pay award,” claiming that Royal Mail’s offer of a 2 percent pay award was “miles away from where inflation is, totally inadequate.”

After official numbers revealed there were fewer unemployed persons than open positions for the first time in records keeping, businesses have been looking to hire and retain staff. As a result, pay rates and assistance programs for UK employees have been rising in tandem.

After Unite the Union held a protest outside the bank’s annual general meeting earlier this month, the personnel at Lloyds Bank received a lump sum payment of £1,000 to aid with mounting costs.

Currently, at 9 percent, inflation is the pace at which prices grow. Later this year, it is anticipated to climb once more. Employers appear more willing to offer one-time cost of living adjustments, but are they a temporary solution to a long-term problem?

Since inflation is what it is, it is quite improbable that the cost of living will decrease next year, even if the price rate increases. So most likely, prices won’t decrease.

Nevertheless, unlike a regular pay rise, these benefits are not reflected in future paychecks. Will there be pressure on employers to include these benefits as a permanent part of salary starting next year and on into the future as long as employees continue to struggle?

Undoubtedly, businesses are aware that employees, particularly those who are lower paid, currently require greater financial assistance in order to pay their expenditures. But this alluring strategy of one-time payments may be primarily focused on a different problem: the retention and recruitment of personnel.

The global coronavirus pandemic had a significant negative impact on Rolls-Royce because it caused a halt in international air travel, which in turn decreased demand for its aircraft engines. With 3,000 of those jobs heading to the UK, it announced intentions in 2020 to reduce its global headcount by 9,000 by the end of this year. It was predicted at the time that the industry’s recovery from the pandemic would take “many years.” Due to the decline in air travel in the first year of Covid, Rolls-Royce suffered a £4 billion loss; however, in 2021, it turned a profit. Additionally, pressuring businesses to raise wages is a lack of available staff.

Morrisons announced earlier this month that it would raise wages for retail employees as UK supermarkets compete for staff amid escalating industry rivalry. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Asda, three rival chains, have also announced salary increases for their employees this year.

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