12th October 2010, 04:58 PM
Unitof1 Wrote: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?
As far as I understand it, it means that the company have said there will be 13 jobs available, and have invited everyone to apply for these. The 13 that get the jobs wouldn't be paid redundancy, because they won't be made redundant. That's what happened when I went through it. I think it's to make the process seem fairer, because everyone starts in the same position, and it lets each employee put across their full range of skills, which the company might not be aware of. I don't know about expense, and it doesn't make things easier, but at least everyone gets the same chance. Theoretically.