KeepItTidy,
Just because
YOU have not heard anything about it or
YOU don't beleive it doesn't mean it is "Made-up B
Ks"!!!!
I agree with you in that it would just hammer another nail into the Retension coffin, but you must know by now that saving a few thousand pounds in a FY gets people promoted, whilst there is no measure of how much losing even more experienced aircrew costs!
The "they wouldn't dare" attitude is naive.