Manitas - "I read that the staff haven't been sacked or made redundant but have been warned that there may be redundancies."

Raggy - "You are quite correct Manitas, however I have never known of a situation where staff have been notified of redundancies for those redundancies not to occur."

Yes, the first step in the Redundancies Consultation Process, after determining that Redundancies may be necessary, is to inform your employees of that fact - that Redundancies may be necessary, and that some, or all, of their jobs may be at risk - and, if numbers of employees are over a minimum limit, a time-scale is set upon the Consultation Process.

As usual, the media and the Haters seem to have jumped on those notifications and sensationalised them to suit their own ends. It's a bit sad really.