Originally Posted by
eyeinthesky
Face it: If your job is being replaced by a machine, you are redundant. You can either sit around and moan about how unfair it is and hope the company gives you more than statutory redundancy, or you can spend the 4 years training, searching or whatever you need to do to resolve the situation.
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What if the ATSA in question is over the cut off age for ATCO training?
I agree opportunities do exist within NATS to specialise, but you are still at the mercy of a promotion board and if you are no good at presentations or interviews (despite being the best candidate for the job) you have little chance.
What if the ATSA in question neither has the money or the time to do further training outside of NATS?
I think your response EITS, is a touch simplistic and a tad arrogant.
Rant complete, getting back to the original point of this thread, with SACTA now delayed (upto five years I've heard) and the company saying they may need to retain ATSAs to keep NODE operational, what are people's thoughts on a MACC ATSA being posted to NPC and then a few years down the line being laid off when SACTA comes online?
I for one believe that a relocation package should be included in any redundancy deal to allow the laid off ATSAs to relocate back to their place of origin.