Part-Time Workers Claim – Further Update
CIRCULAR:2011HOC0174AD
8 April 2011
TO: ALL RETAINED BRANCHES
CC: ALL WHOLETIME BRANCHES
Dear Brother/Sister
In just over a week’s time the details of individual cash settlements will be sent to members via Popularis. Members will also be able to view and accept their claim online at the website www.retainedfirefighterclaims.org.uk.
You can access the website from Saturday 9 April 2011. To access the website you will need your National Insurance number. This is to ensure your confidentiality as your NI number is known to you and not to strangers. Nobody will be able to see your National Insurance number and your National Insurance number will not be used on any of the letters that are sent to you.
The website does not yet include details of your claim as these details have not yet been provided. However, please do visit the website and log in.
We have been informed by Popularis that a number of members have written in to say that they accept the terms of settlement. These letters will not be sufficient to be counted as acceptance, not least because the employer may get their facts all wrong and end up not making a financial offer which we would successfully challenge. We would not be able to make that challenge if a member’s premature letter was to be taken as the final word.
Those members who have written such a letter should be mindful that they will still have to complete the form/accept online via the website, despite having provided a letter giving this initial indication of their intentions.
Finally, can I ask all members to keep a close eye on their post at home it is not uncommon for letters that do not seem personalised to be viewed as “junk mail”. The correspondence from the FBU (via Popularis) will be in a special envelope with the FBU logo on the front. It will contain very important information including details of the claim and the appropriate forms.
Best wishes.
Yours fraternally
ANDY DARK
ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY
AD/sll
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