17th November 2008, 04:30 PM
Regarding employers and their policies for selecting who gets laid off... One unit has elected to lay off anyone who has not been working there for a year as this gets them out of paying any redundancy package. This also includes people on rolling contracts as the start of your employment seems to be thought of as when your most recent contract started. This system has amounted to c. 30 basic digger field staff being laid off and a handful of assistants and supervisors. Is this similar to what is going on elsewhere?