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My suggestion that the bean counters might see the apprentice as an easy target was not a good example of what I was trying to get at.
In tough times bases and operations close. The civilian apprentice has no guarantee of continued employment. A good employer would try to place them elsewhere within the company or industry. Tough thing to do at the moment.
Apprentices being made redundant has certainly happened in the past and could happen again.
The lack of humanity shown by some UK employers beggers belief. In conversation I recently mentioned an avionics engineer I knew who gave up a job in the south moved to Aberdeen with his familly and was made redundant within a week. A second engineer listening to the conversation who's background I was not familiar with then told me he had been involved in the same redundancy package with the same major UK operator in almost identical circumstances.
I doubt that a bit of bad publicity affects this type of hire and fire mentality.
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