Originally Posted by
Neo380
Yes and no, voluntary redundancy was taken by all (bar one) volunteers. The £1.5m debt financing prevented the culling of any non-volunteers - and NATS is already well back into 'feast and famine' of controllers.
As I said those made redundant faired quite well but voluntary is an interesting term. NATS had served notice that it was going to unilaterally withdraw the relatively good redundancy scheme. In mid 2020 it looked quite possible that income would not recover and redundancies would be required further down the track possibly on far worse terms. Many jumped because of that. Others realised that if a lot of people jumped they would be left in an under resourced organisation that wouldn't be a nice place to be.