Re: "Oh Sunni! Oh, Shiite! Let's fight the Jews."

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:53:10 +0000 (UTC),
Seth Breidbart <sethb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <NirGg.144528$F8.76891@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jette Goldie <bosslady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Seth Breidbart" <sethb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ecddkr$j77$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <mvVFg.130126$9d4.27093@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jette Goldie <bosslady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What you can't do is "make redundant" half your workforce
because you've discovered that you can hire a bunch of
school leavers or illegal aliens at a fraction of the cost.

What if I've discovered I can hire a _smaller_ bunch of very competent
people at _higher_ wages to get the same work done at much lower total
cost?

Then you've effectively made the surplus people "redundant". Pay
them their redundancy money ("severance pay") and let them go.

The surplus people are _all_ the current employees; I'm replacing 12
moderately competent employees with 5 stars who earn twice the pay
(per person) of the 12. So how do I declare all 12 redundant?

You cannot, unless the job specification changes significantly enough
that the job would appear to be different from the existing one. I
think that you may try and induce them to hand in their notice - a
one-off golden goodbye offer.

Also if you were keeping a few of the existing staff you would have to
have a fair means of selecting that few. Obviously you would want the
better ones but you would have to be able to back that up. A number of
companies would ask all 12 re-apply for the remaining post(s) and
choose the few from the interviewees.

--
Andy Leighton => andyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials"
- Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_
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