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The DF have said post 94,s who on completion of their 21 yrs service and have not reached the rank of Sgt
will be discharged..
As the first guys will be for the chop in a couple of years I wondering do people think this will happen??
Will their be exceptions to the rule?
The DF have said post 94,s who on completion of their 21 yrs service and have not reached the rank of Sgt
will be discharged..
As the first guys will be for the chop in a couple of years I wondering do people think this will happen??
Will their be exceptions to the rule?
I think when the Government realise how much extra the Army Pensions bill will cost they might have a rethink.
The DF have said post 94,s who on completion of their 21 yrs service and have not reached the rank of Sgt
will be discharged..
As the first guys will be for the chop in a couple of years I wondering do people think this will happen??
Will their be exceptions to the rule?
It's in fact 18 months from now.. I am one of those and as yet it is defined as above. you're not a Sgt you're out. However.., PDFORRA are in consultation with the DOD to reach an agreement on trying to overturn the decision..
It's in fact 18 months from now.. I am one of those and as yet it is defined as above. you're not a Sgt you're out. However.., PDFORRA are in consultation with the DOD to reach an agreement on trying to overturn the decision..
have you any chance of been promoted?? or are you hoping Pdforra can sort it out still??
Being Devil's advocate: You don't suppose that with the inevitable White Paper inbound, there could be another proposed reduction in the PDF establishment, and this conveniently timed departure of "post 94" Cpls and Ptes will be the key mechanism to offload the numbers?
In any case, what did PDFORRA think was going to happen when they kicked this can down the road all those years ago?
How many guys do you think the DF would lose if this goes ahead??
My unit is small by standard DF numbers we have only 3 Cpl,s to lose there jobs in 18 months
and more to follow in the following months and years.
In fairness, it isn't as if no one signing the contracts didn't know.
Very convenient for PDFORRA (and staff) not to have brought this to the attention of DoD and D of Finance since the amount of promotions was reduced, having said that the DF is now smaller with few sgts and SNCOs.
Off the top of my head the DF were taking on around 400 a year on contracts, at a guess you could say only 25-50% of each years enterants are still serving. But that is still a sizable number.
It could also mean then retirement aged need to be increased.
Let's remember the reason the contracts were brought in to build a stronger fitter younger more capable DF (as a byproduct it also reduced the pension bill over time).
Its still a bad system I know guys in my unit who will be 38/39 yrs of age on their 21 they are cpls with standard courses done
atleast 4 trips overseas all grade one or two fitness also the majority have done courses abroad and have there trade papers
it would be crazy losing these guys .
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