A terminally ill IBM worker who sued the tech giant for not raising his £54,000 salary for the 15 years he was on sick leave said ‘it’s not greedy to want a pay rise’ as he spoke of his fears for his family’s finances.
Ian Clifford, 50, was signed off work in 2008 on mental health grounds and was diagnosed with stage four leukaemia in 2012.
He had been guaranteed to receive £54,000 a year until the age of 65 under the company’s health plan – meaning he will pocket more than £1.5million.
For doing nothing. Yes, it’s greedy. I and many others can manage perfectly well on a fraction of this.
An employment tribunal in Reading, Berkshire, dismissed his claim and a judge told Mr Clifford he had been given a ‘very substantial benefit’ and ‘favourable treatment’.
Quite.
Unbelievable avarice I would call it.
Sorry for being OT again but I thought that you might find this story about NHS dentists interesting. I thought about Fahrenheit211 too, I think that he comes here so he might see it anyway.
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/dentist-dilemma-what%E2%80%99s-the-answer.106389/#post-1262859
Stonyground. Thank you so much for that. I will do something with that later in the week, possibly on Thursday. Much appreciated.
Back to the topic. I agree that the person in question is astoundingly greedy and self entitled. Yes the man’s got a terminal illness but that doesn’t excuse his greed.
I’ll leave that one for you, then.
He was signed off as sick on “mental health grounds” in 2008 and subsequently developed stage 4 leukaemia in 2012. His pay was “reviewed” in 2013 plus he got some cash for “holiday” pay. So he must have taken time off from … taking time off as holiday. Ahem.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12087047/Terminally-ill-IBM-worker-sued-company-not-raising-54k-salary-speaks-out.html
His claim that his son if off to university and therefore he needs to support him for the next 15 years (i.e. until he himself is 65 and the payments stop) is a bit ingenious to say the least.
Nope – he’s a chancer and has broken the agreements he made with IBM that the payments were in full and final settlement. IBM needs to tell him to sod off in no uncertain terms.
Bit of a stretch describing him as a worker when he hasn’t worked for 15 years. I’ve been retired less time than that and nobody describes me as a worker.
He’s still got a terminal illness after 11 years? That’s pretty damn good – most people find that the terminal illness wins before 10 years are up!