Originally Posted by
alfaman
That's not wholly correct: sadly those in the initial training phase have been offered a voluntary exit package now, or can stay with the company until the end of October to consider any redeployment opportunities, if they wish - however, whichever they chose, their contract will end in November. This applies to just over 120 people, but over twice that number remain within the system, awaiting unit training.
If they take the voluntary exit package, their contract ends on the 31st September with redundancy "compensation". If you wait to stay on until October for them to find opportunities (which they've said is gonna be very very very slim), then the contract will end in November. They've killed off the whole of the college - even the people who are 2 weeks from graduating (they literally had ABES to do and had already passed all other exams), in favour of keeping the people with their student licenses.
Strategically, getting rid of TATCs but not SATCs just stops them running off to graduate with other ANSPs. Clever really.