Originally Posted by
AerialPerspective
...In the comments section of an aviation publication some months ago there was a mention of someone that had got made redundant and the comments section basically had responses such as 'hope the replacement is actually interested in their department and not in advancing themselves at the expense of morale and doing their job'.
That alone tells you something about the organisation concerned; redundancy is what happens when the job ceases to exist and the person becomes redundant.
If as you describe apparently everyone knew there would be a replacement then that's not a legitimate redundancy.