I had a chat with a former colleague, who is now mid-level management at TNT, who said that nobody knows what's going to happen as internal communication is -in his words- non-existing. Apparently the Airbus chief pilot was informed about the grounding of the first Airbus by an email sent to all pilots. Request for information about future redundancies and how they are to be handled are met with silence or waffeling.
It seems -according to my source- that the upper management have decided to create uncertainty amongst their pilots and suppress rumours by encouraging the reporting of same and their originators.
DDR anyone?