I agree that SLC was purely talking about those that are swinging the lead. My neighbour at a secret base in Oxfordshire was supposed to go OOA to MPA of all places and couldn't as she had had such an awful pregnancy with her now 3 yr old daughter. Believe it was her hips that she suddenly needed physio for, after receiving her paperwork to go. OOA deferred and subsequently has had bambino number 2. Now call it coincidence but if You ask me then she and others like it are the ones that should initially make up some of the 5000 to go!!
Do that and I'm sure there would be a big unfair dismissal case claiming sexual discrimination
She'd then get an even bigger pay off.