People,

I received an email from Sallie Muir a few hours ago (Wednesday 2pm).
As well as addressing the specifics of my situation, she made a
number of interesting points which some people here may find useful.

She does not specifically say how the unremitted April/May car
payments are being handled, but if you have such a situation, make
sure that Deloitte knows about it, because they don't automatically
find out.

If anything below leads you to change your claim, get onto it pronto,
because today was the deadline.

The following are extracts from that email, with highly personal
information removed.

++++++++++ From Sallie Muir ++++++++++
I confirm that your claim for expenses was admitted as an employee
claim
(as opposed to an unsecured claim), to be paid out of the employee
fund.
This is consistent with the way we have treated all other 'approved
employee expense claims' for expenses incurred on behalf of the company
but not reimbursed as part of the last monthly pay run.

A final dividend is calculated to ensure that additional claims and
other claims, such as yours, that require adjustment are effectively
"equalised" to ensure that the total dividend received (interims and
final) are calculated on the final list of admitted claims.

Salary sacrifices for the month of June 2002 have been ignored for the
purposes of the payment of dividends. That is to say that, salaries
have been grossed up to their 'normal wage' and paid as wages.

A special circumstance may arise where a particular employee has had
payments deducted from their salary and not remitted to, a lease
company
for instance, for more than one month. This is problematic in most
instances as payroll systems generally only record the deduction and
not
the remittance (except in the case of superannuation) and we must rely
on information from the employee indicating that a lease company has
advised them that a lease payment has not been made by the company for
more than one month. We usually deal with such issues on an individual
basis as they are not common.

Contractors are unsecured creditors. Their claims have been treated as
unsecured claims regardless of the nature of the debt owed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Bishop [mailto:nick4mony@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 December 2003 5:37 PM
> To: Muir, Sallie (AU - Sydney)
> Subject: OpenTel - Expenses claim
>
> Dear Sallie,
>
> I see that my claim against the Employee Fund has been
> increased
> by the claim for expenses that I had. However, the amount of
> increase is not correct.
>
> [There needs to be a second increase to bring it to the exact
> amount]
> [discussion on how to achieve the effect of paying about 44% of the
> amount of second increase all at once, and paying 22% on the rest of
> my claim.]
>
> *****
>
> This illustrates the difficulty that some people had
> interpreting the instructions, and knowing how to claim:
> a) super,
> b) expenses
> c) salary sacrifices for cars or super or health insurance
> d) expenses if you were a contractor
> e) expenses if you were an employee who had resigned.
>
> It was never explained (until that phone call) that expense
> reimbursements would be claimed against the Employees Fund.
> The
> letter to me dated 1 August 2003 implied that these were not
> dealt with as employee entitlements.
>
> An email from Andrew Needham Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:41:20 +1000
> simply noted "Your claim for unreimbursed travel expenses is
> noted" without specifying the amount, and without including it
> in the amended claim.
>
> While I don't have the problem of Salary Sacrifice for cars or
> anything else, I would be interested in a brief summary of how
> that is being dealt with.