Shorts - You spend WAAY too much time on the internet (lol, rotflmao and other inane acronyms). I think we all recognize that this is very serious. There is an issue here on contractual obligations: As CX well knows, a contract is binding in law, and my contract states, in essence, "last in, first out." I might be prepared to allow my elected representatives negotiate around this, if certain "other" issues could be addressed. This really has come at a bad time for the lads on the 3rd and 10th floors, hasn't it? First the two contra-judgments, then this..?
One issue really bothers me here: is there a real desire on CX's part to offer stable careers, or a reluctance to part with 6 month's salary if one is made (temporarily) redundant? As our MD and DFO have already stated, this crisis will not be used to make "opportunistic raids" on our COS, so I hope for everyone’s sake that this clause still stands. This might just be the force majeur issue we could ride to end the impasse between the AOA and CX, its workgroups and our (inadequate) personnel department.
When all of this is over, I predict big changes on the horizon, not least of which a possible early move for a newly-appointed quick-fingered gunslinger on the 10th floor..? How is the inopportune "internal memo" leak being viewed up there? I couldn't imagine anyone in Swires being terribly happy with Billions being wiped off the value of the company for lack of a little "diplomacy".