Originally Posted by Silverado
Romulus, whats your take on redundancies in a department thats actually increasing headcount?
Do you think it's legal to make someone redundant only to replace them with another?
It depends on the actual job being made redundant. The department may grow in other areas but if certain roles are no longer required then those positions are declared redundant and the people filling them are redundant.
Those roles CANNOT be refilled otherwise it is not a legitimate redundancy.
The roles must be clearly different eg Line LAME v Base LAME, 737 LAME v 767 LAME etc.
If you want to boost Line LAMEs by hiring more of them than you make Base LAMEs redundant then the dept could possibly grow (or you could hire more supervisors, managers etc) whilst also making people redundant.
Logically if you could redeploy people elsewhere that makes a lot of sense, but it is not mandatory to do so.