If it is (and it should ) be LIFO......It should be based entirely on D.O.J .......
What it
should be and what the law
is are very different animals. When a company closes a factory in Hicksville, it doesn't move the more senior hands to Dogsville and and make redundant junior Dogsville workers. You're not understanding what our lawmakers made of the law about this issue. If Hicksville jobs go, only Hicksville workers can fill the redundant figures- remember it is the job that goes, not the person. When Dan Air went, it was a zombie company- walking dead. Any jobs that could be salvaged from it were on the plus side. The only reason bits were taken in to BA was to get the assets that were available- the slots. BA 'owed' nobody who was not subsequently employed anything. The ones that were employed came into a pilot force that was not short of people. It is sad to think people carry around for years such aggressive resentment when their company failed because of internal causes, not external. Any jobs that can be rescued after a failure are positive, but to think after a failure somebdy is supposed to move heads around and chop the hindmost is not noticing that the law is now involved. When your company goes belly up, you have no rights. That BA paid out to the redundant staff of another defunct company is to its credit.
Sorry if it is brutal, but its also plain logic. If people are going to be carrying these resentments around for years, they must be prepared to hear a counter argument.