10 January 2008 09:41
Royal Dutch Shell is on a collision course with trade union Amicus over redundancy packages for thousands of IT staff.
Personnel Today’s sister title Computer Weekly reports that Shell is to outsource more than 3,000 IT jobs worldwide to AT&T, EDS and T-systems as part of a plan to save £250m a year.
The move will affect about 300 people working in Shell’s IT operations in the UK.
Those affected are unhappy about being offered lower redundancy packages than other categories of employees. Shell is offering packages worth only £50,000 to IT staff instead of the standard £200,000 packages.
The lower packages were introduced in June last year, when Shell said the £200,000 packages were only for employees who worked offshore on oil rigs.
Amicus said the larger packages were negotiated by a committee that included onshore workers and should apply to everyone, including IT staff.
The decision to outsource the company’s IT infrastructure came as a result of a review in 2005. The outsourcing deals are expected to be finalised by mid-2008.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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