Jet II
The punishment is not for the redundancies. It is for the way it is being handled during a period where BA is accepting government money in the form of the Covidvirus Job Retention Scheme. BA is also making all the staff effectivley redundant (despite what certain posters on here keep saying) and re-hiring on reduced pay and T & Cs. Not exactly ethical at the best of times but now its just morally abhorent.
If BA at the outset had offered some form of Voluntary redundancy scheme and initiated meaningful negotiations before issuing the redundancy notice then this thing would probably be done and dusted by now. There would have been a stampede in the rush to leave with a few quid in one's pocket .