I thought that once a company made redundancies that they couldn’t reinstate other employees or contractors to replace those positions for a minimum of 12 months
They made 4 of us Melbourne engineers redundant in Jun 2009 and hired 2 guys in Feb 2010, although the last one actually finished work late October 2009.
At the time i wrote a letter to Kumar explaining that the base couldn't function with less than 6 LAMEs, as had been proven in about 2002 when they went down to 4 LAMEs.
Of course Qantas Link management know best - which explains why they can only staff Canberra with contractors, Sydney are very short (emails form the boos pleading if staff know anyone who wants to work in Sydney) and Brisbane complete basket case as has been detailed in this thread.