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when faced with difficult decisions around redundancies, using sick record is one measure i agree with. Not nice for the person on the other end for sure, but it makes the most business sense.
It's not about business....it's about safety. Do you really want people to operate an airplane when they they are feeling like death warmed up. Threat of redundancy for calling sick is going to pressure pilots not to call sick when they really should.
No, that is a poor approach to the problem. Either a pilots' level of attendance is acceptable or it isn't. If you have a problem you deal with the problem, not use it as a metric for firing. A pilot may have had a car accident and been off for an extended period due to very strict medical regulations(the office worker will still be able to work).
TBH I don't see a problem with LIFO. It is the most impartial way of making people redundant. The moment you move to any form of "metric", you are effectively using performance and you are effectively "booting out the rubbish". You are unnecessarily tainting those being made redundant......let's face it if you were employing would you rather employ someone fired impartially through LIFO, or someone who has been fired for performance?