Redundancy News

[Jennifer Crilly]

Has anyone else had news of redundancies within their companies?
We heard last week that 524 cabin crew are going, a union rep spoke to us letting know that crew are being cut from every rank ( including 56 Pursers) rather than "last in first out" basis. This seems really unfair, the way it looks at the moment is that someone with 1 yrs service could keep their job over someone with 6-10 yrs service. The way they propose to nominate people is on a points system ie sickness, lateness,uncontactable and general performance. Other crew I have spoken to would be willing to take a demotion until things pick up rather than lose their jobs. I will be devasted if I lose my job and be very angry at a company that I have given so many years loyalty to especially if their only offering me two weeks pay for every year served redundancy package!