Property News · January 24, 2015

Death in service: how much should employers pay out when tragedy strikes


When Pennie Davis was murdered last year, her employer, Sainsbury’s, gave the family a £1,100 death-in-service lump sum. But for a family with five children, that won’t go farThe five children of a woman murdered last year have been left struggling to make ends meet after her employer, Sainsbury’s, paid out a death-in-service lump sum of just £1,100. Rival retailers such as Tesco and Marks & Spencer would have awarded the family up to 50 times as much.Pennie Davis, 47, was stabbed to death on 2 September as she tended her horses in the New Forest. The case received national media coverage. Davis had five children aged between 14 and 20, and worked at a Sainsbury’s store in Blackfield, near Southampton. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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