"No award can ever compensate me for that, while I am of course very pleased with the outcome". In June this year, an employment tribunal ruled she was unfairly dismissed with the judge saying chief executive Tony Parkinson "withheld information" from councillors who were making a redundancy decision on Mrs Whitmore.
With hindsight it would have been wiser for you to have made this point before handing in your notice; it might have made negotiating a redundancy payment a little easier.
We have had to make a lot of redundancies".
We have had to make a lot of redundancies". But some say the cut to council tax in Hounslow is "meaningless" after two years in which the council has had to find savings of £30m.
Pregnancy - to gym, or not to gym? EU law requires an employer to state in writing the reasons for making a collective redundancy, and to inform the pregnant worker of the criteria chosen for identifying those who will lose their jobs.
Staff members have been given until 6 September to make a decision on the redundancy offer.
The BBC expects to make a total of 2,000 redundancies as a result of Delivering Quality First, the cuts programme introduced by former director general Mark Thompson after the licence fee was frozen at £145.50 a year in the 2010 deal with the coalition government.
Today's redundancies will make a difference to the club's financial position but there are sure to be further challenges ahead of us.
He adds that "every bit of consultation that was supposed to be going on … was frankly spurious" and that Byford would have had a good case for taking the BBC to an employment tribunal because it had already made him a redundancy offer.
In a statement, the insolvency agency – a government organisation – said: "The Redundancy Payments Service (RPS) have issued letters to all SSI staff by post with details of how to make an online claim for redundancy pay".
Sometimes the celebrities and the human-interest stories are the core of the marathon, a tribute to the human spirit and all that good stuff — a one-day jubilee that should remain that way, despite threats of making a two-day redundancy out of this grand, singular event.
