Feather bed redundancy
I think that some of the above fail to understand how lucky they are being made redundant by HMG, you get a big pay off resettlement courses and time to think about what to do next.
I have lost my job three times with no notice,no pay off & no chance of getting the money that is owed to you.......... It was just airline captain to unemployed in a heartbeat.
I know it is disturbing to be out of a job but you guys are at least protected from the worst of it. In total my ex employers owe me IRO £100K with no chance of recovering the money.
I think all In all you are having rather an easy time of redundancy.