The bank workers union (Etyk) released a statement responding to the recent decision stipulating that former bank employees who left their positions by accepting voluntary exit schemes are not entitled to unemployment benefits. The specific employees are not considered to be unemployed in the traditional sense because they left through a voluntary plan, receiving redundancy and additional compensation from their employer. The union said that this decision amounts to targeting bank employees and added that the union will take every action to resolve “this great injustice”.
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