It depends on the type of company car - here they're talking about a company car as a perk on top of salary for higher band managers not a business use car.
Posts by TomTom123456789
2 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jul 2019
BT staffers fear new mums could be hit disproportionately by car allowance change
Friday 19th July 2019 17:55 GMT
As others have said if you were of a certain grade within BT you got a company car allowance. Depending on banding this could be a fair chunk of money (albeit non-pensionable) per month.
This is actually unfair because as far as I understand as the regrading sits if you took the car itself you get to keep it for some time (might be until the scheduled hand back time) despite losing the benefit. However if you took the money and probably used it to buy something better as the company apparently didn't get particularly good deals compared to ones available to the public, you should get 85% of the value of your allowance added to your salary.
So there's now the situation where pregnant women who took the car get to keep the benefit and those who took the money lost out.
That being said it was the more senior bands (ie people managers) that got the company cars. Technical managers (ie people not engineers but no actual managers) were usually graded lower and are the ones that are getting the pay CUTS in genuine salary rather than the people managers who are getting pay rises or freezes.
No comment on Prospect but you do wonder what banding the company reps are getting.....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
