Originally Posted by
Neo380
Why sack an entire cohort, some of whom were only 2 weeks away from qualifying?
You put a fantastic burnish on everything NATS does, with real detail (hence 'Corporate Comms'!), but this was clearly the wrong thing to do.
Heading way off topic now. Not my decision to defend but those were very strange times. We now know how the future of aviation panned out but at the time pre vacs it didn't look anywhere near as positive. The furlough scheme offered a reprieve to many NATS jobs but it was quite clear that was going to run out long before income returned. NATS prioritised keeping it's validated controllers. Others were not so lucky. A large proportion of technical staff were on short term contracts through complex multi company contracts and they were let go straight away. NATS had long since outsourced many ancillary functions to organisations who weren't so good to their staff. A fair few NATS were made redundant although the terms were pretty good so they faired pretty well.