Originally Posted by coolb1banana
It depends if the company want it to drag on for six months plus or if they want it all to be over in a few weeks. Last on first off is the quickest and easiest method.
And is also not legal as a redundancy methodology.
Redundancy means exactly that, they can only make positions redundant not specific people, i.e. they can determine positions they will not refill, the position must be removed permanently, and the person (or one of the people) who fills that role is then made redundant. It is based on operational requirements and (in theory) nothing else.
So yes, it IS likely that legacy LAMEs will be made redundant because those are the roles that will be removed. Specifically, if Qantas take out the 767 fleet and then make 767 LAMEs redundant then that can be defined as an operationally driven decision (same for 747).
It would be likely that a dual licenced LAME with a type that remains in the fleet would have an argument to be made redundant after a 767 or 747 only person or even a dual 747/767 person.