I'd be very interested in any knowledgeable
replies to this one.
I "have a friend" who worked for many years for a "hypothetical"
major company and the same thing "hypothetically" happened....(the facts have been changed in this sentence, as if you can't tell, in order to protect the innocent....)
"We're making you all redundant"
"By the way, were forming a
completely separate company, doing the same work as the company you just had to leave and guess what ? WE'RE RECRUITING ! Do you want a job on the
new companies terms and conditions ?"
The terms and conditions with the "new" company were obviously cheaper for them and more productive per pound of salary, surprise, surprise.
Another funny thing is that the "totally separate company" is taking a strangely long time to separate itself from the original company.
The workforce jumped to the "new" company like a bunch of understandably frightened sheep and the unions......
UNIONS ?? Who are they and what
DO they do ??
Is this disease spreading ?
Is it not illegal ?
(I hope that this supports and reinforces helitubbie's question, rather than divert from it. An answer is needed and punishment, if any is due, should be applied in retrospect to the perpetrators. An informed ruling is needed.)