| Topic: Grangemouth Refinery |
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| 41. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 24th Feb 2025. 13:25 What I read into the mention of redundancy pay was that it was a warning that it would be some time before the additional investment would have an effect on alternative employment for those who would be paid off. Starmer would be wanting to appear to take credit for it though by mentioning it at the same time as the £200m. Reply |
| 42. Author: alwaysaPar Date: Mon 24th Feb 2025. 13:38 wee eck, Mon 24 Feb 13:25 Nope , it`s nothing to do with any additional investment and he`s made a faux pas, by making it seem that any employee at Grangemouth that is made redundant due the refinery closing is getting 18 months, this at the moment is only for Petroineos workers Reply |
| 43. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 24th Feb 2025. 13:56 So doesn`t everyone employed at Grangemouth work for Petroineos? Gun Mechanic Par, who seems to work there, appeared to say yesterday that everyone qualified for redundancy money but the additional investment would be too late to help them. Reply |
| 44. Author: alwaysaPar Date: Mon 24th Feb 2025. 14:05 wee eck, Mon 24 Feb 13:56 No, there is Ineos Chemicals and Ineos FPS as well, parts of which are employed as shared services who are impacted by the closure Post Edited (Mon 24 Feb 14:07) Reply |
| 45. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 24th Feb 2025. 14:33 It`s not as straightforward as I thought then. I`ve just spotted this in the BBC report on the additional investment - `Redundancy letters were sent out to staff at the refinery earlier this month, with just 65 of 500 jobs expected to be retained. Approximately 2,000 people are directly employed at the site - 500 at the refinery, 450 on the Forties pipeline from the North Sea and a further 1,000 in the Ineos petrochemicals business.` Reply |
| 46. Author: Gun Mechanic Par Date: Mon 24th Feb 2025. 16:37 Only the staff that work for Petroineos are getting their redundancy, as it Petroineos that run and own the refinery. Ineos run some other parts of the site and may be affected but that`s up to their parent company to deal with. Multiple contractors work at the site, most will be moved to other locations, and I know some are asking their companies for voluntary redundancy. INEOS own and run the chemical side Petroineos run the refinery - all are getting 18 months redundancy Post Edited (Mon 24 Feb 16:38) Reply |
| 47. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 24th Feb 2025. 16:44 I take it there will be far less for those who lose their jobs/business as a result of this though? What`s in place for the local taxi drivers, cafes, snack vans, delivery guys, cleaners, security guards etc etc. Reply |
| 48. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Tue 25th Feb 2025. 08:50 Wonder if the money will ever appear or will it end up in the same account as the Dunfermline City money? Strange it was announced to coincide with Starmers speech at the "Scottish " Labour conference, but still couldn`t fill the hall! At least Murray got his season ticket for Old Trafford, or was that the consolation prize?🤭 Reply |
| 49. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Tue 11th Mar 2025. 10:23 Nice to hear tax dodger Ratcliffe`s plans for Old Trafford, wonder if he`ll employ Grangemouth workers as labourers?🤔🤬🤬🤬 Reply |
| 50. Author: jake89 Date: Tue 11th Mar 2025. 15:47 £1bn to a rich tax dodger while Dunfermline loses a promised £5m that would have gone into improve facilities for the people of the town. Reply |
| 51. Author: desparado Date: Wed 12th Mar 2025. 08:18 And our Red Tory MP has just voted to reduce benefits for disabled people. What an opportunity we missed in 2014. Reply |