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Wed 2002-10-16 12:16

In other news, for those who haven't already heard, my company announced yesterday that 1 in 10 employees were going to be made redundant by the end of the year. It will be some weeks before I have any idea exactly who is likely to get it in the neck, so I may be a little tense for a while.

(Rationally speaking it seems likely to me that they'll be gunning for new starters first, because they don't have as much company expertise at their fingertips and because you don't have to give them as much redundancy pay; but nonetheless it's not a particularly cheery thought...)

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[identity profile] simonb.livejournal.comWed 2002-10-16 04:31
Good luck on the whole redundancy front; the place I've been working for has had three rounds of redundancies in the past 18 months, with the last one not complete yet. I've put in for voluntary redundancy this time as it looks like the European side of things in WorldCom are almost completely screwed and I'd like to get out of the company with something.

As for who they make redundant... they can't hit new starters first as that is targeting people which is a big no-no under UK employment law. Strictly speaking they can only make roles redundant, not the people who occupy those roles.
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[identity profile] kaet.livejournal.comWed 2002-10-16 10:18
I thought that's why they had roles like Junior Assistant Probationary Programmer and so on whose adjectives you slowly shed and then gain others until you are Senior Teamleading Projectmanaging Progammer Extrordinarie, so that they can claim to get rid of a class but actually get rid of people by time of employment. I don't know if they do this at ARM, though.
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