RE your story about the directors of Remploy receiving more than £1.7m in bonuses in the same year as 2,500 of its workers lost their jobs (Echo, June 15). The standing of any nation is how we care for the sick, the disabled, the young and the elderly in our communities and as a country.

The closure of 28 Remploy Chris Lloyd’s column will return next week Do you agree or disagree with any of the opinions expressed today? Let us know your views factories was catastrophic for those disabled workers who lost work, but for the Government-owned company to pay bonuses to directors and managers is a kick in the teeth, or any part of the body for that matter, for those who relied on Remploy for their modest income and independence.

I for one would rather the bonuses had been invested in the business for the benefit of all the workers. In my opinion, no employee of a public-funded organisation should be awarded bonus payments.

John Waiting, Guisborough, East Cleveland.

ON reading your front page (Echo, June 15) I was thoroughly disgusted to find that directors of the Government-owned company Remploy had received £1.7m in bonuses for work performance in the same year that 2,500 partially-disabled, reliable and useful employees had lost their jobs.

Why do directors and chief executives need such huge bonuses when they are already earning such high salaries?

Many professional people, as well as thousands of ordinary working wage earners, don’t receive such huge bonuses.

Something should be done about these directors, etc, awarding themselves these bonuses with their big houses and flash cars. Roland Bramham, Richmond, North Yorkshire.