Birmingham Archaeology redundancies

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[SIZE=3]The facts are that 40 or so staff of Birmingham Archaeology were handed their redundancy notices early last week, and they were all invited to reapply for 13 posts.

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From the sounds of it the unit is not dead, and instead of the “management” –I don’t know how they are differentiated from the workers (could it be some pension differential?) instead of selecting 27 long serving workers for redundancy they appear to have elected to make 40 long serving workers redundant and then invite them to apply for presumably new (and unlucky) 13 jobs. Now I don’t know about the legalities of this but
http://www.cityredundancies.co.uk/redundancyentitlements.html

may be of interest. Isnt that an more expensive way to do things as well, give everybody redundancy payments and then undertake an expensive recruitment to take the cheapest back on?

But then they are not interested in working for themselves and forming their own one person band companies and spend the rest of their lives doing worthless watching briefs and small negative evaluations. Instead they presumably think anything -a virtual reality something called Birmingham archaeology which does not appear to be a charity or a limited company but a so called trading arm of an institute which also seems to be virtual reality structure within a higher education establishment…tells them to do will be alright. Its all ivory towers in search of sensible archaeology to me.

ps will they keep those with the biggest back log or get rid of them and let somebody else write the jobs up. We watch and wait (worthlessly)