If we truly can lose so many without an impact on service delivery, why has it taken a recession for management to take this step?
We almost certainly can't afford to lose that many at the moment but in a post i-facts world it's a different story. In Asset Engineering staff have to agree to go by the end of March but won't necessarily go until their current projects are complete. NATS will make special provision for those redundancies from whatever profit is left this year and therefore avoid paying some tax but the people may go sometime later. The same may well apply to the ATSAs, they may not go until later in the year.