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"Usdaw noted that as Woolworths was in administration at the time of the redundancies, responsibility for the compensation payments will rest with the taxpayer, through the government's Redundancy Payments Office (RPO)"

So?


Why shouldn't Woolworth workers be treated decently.

Put this into perspective, it works out at about ?2,800 each employee.

Fred Goodwin (bless him) takes ?2,000 A DAY from his pension.

RBS would have gone into administration as well if the Taxpayer hadn't bailed it out, so isn't Fred's ?700,000 a year being paid out by the Taxpayer as well.

Even better, maybe the super rich Barclay brothers who purchased the Woolworth brand name for a song and for whom the amounts you are talking about would be loose change, should have paid off the workers rather than leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab.

Agreed.

Reality is though that the Barclay brothers get invited to number 10 for dinner.

I wonder when the last time Dave or George invited a Woolworth's check-out girl round for nibbles.

Suppose another difference is that the Woolworth workers will have been UK Taxpayers (unlike the Barclay Brothers who live on the Channel Isles).

So in fact the Woolworth Workers are getting back some money from the system they paid into.

"should have paid off the workers rather than leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab."

Suppose that's how they got to be super rich.

"So in fact the Woolworth Workers are getting back some money from the system they paid into."

True, but it would have been a nice gesture though from a couple of Billionaires who like to think of themselves as philanthropists.