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Originally Posted by Escapee
Well I was told last night that the people affected will be getting 30 days notice, they will know before the end of this month and will be gone before christmas. I think the affected people will be getting confirmation next week, I'm fairly sure they never got 90 days last time it happened in that department but I wouldn't like to put my money where my mouth is.
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Last time they hit my old co's cambridge office (different division) the made 19 people redundant. (20 is the point where notice is required.)
It was done in true corperate style as well. You went to the meeting with HR, were given your last ciggy and stood in front of the wall while they lined up the firing sqad... when they got back to there desks all of their Unix ID's and most of the windows access had been revoked. I believe that they did get the months notice as per there contract but it made there job 'interesting' as they could pretty much surf and type things, that was it.
The redundancies were always at Christmas because thats when they knew from the previous years results that they hadn't made enough of a profit*.
Scarlett.
* Actually our division never made a profit but then wehn you work in support and the profit is driven by what the salesman has agree to charge for the support there isn't much you can do (especially whn at least one company was on faverable terms of £1000 a year for 8-6 support mon-Fri)