11th October 2010, 12:37 PM
Usually in local government if you're in the consultation period you won't have been given notice - just informed that redundancies are looming. The consultation period is there for the managers to decide (together with the unions) how they're going to proceed, and then once they have the selection prcedure set up, to make the decisions. Not sure if this situation is the same, but even if all staff have been sent letters that may not mean that all staff are going to lose their jobs. So there may be some hope. The last time I was in such a situation, all field staff were told they were at risk and about half went.
You can always tell a Brummie... but you can't tell him much