I don't doubt that 'legally' there is an issue, I just think from a practical point its fair. Anyway, I believe Edinburgh council have had a 're-think'

I think its more likely that the radio station who reported the mis-information have had a call to their own legal representatives from Edinburgh Council who would be keen to kick their backsides through the courts if they persisted in touting the opinion that Edinburgh Council picks its redundancies via bits of paper and an old hat.

I tried to make a person redundant 3 to 4 years ago, that was my first mistake as the legal representative for the Fed of Small Businesses pointed out to me when I rang the legal helpline - you make the position redundant not the employee and there is a well defined procedure for interviewing and assessing all employees not least of which includes full disclosure and discussion with your employees, for as was well demonstrated at the start of the first recession of recent times, the workforce will often suggest an alternative to cutting payroll costs that management haven't yet dreamed of in order to keep everyone in employment.

Personally if i ran a company i'd think i'd hire an outside independent company to re-interview my whole staff, no preconceptions or favoritism. Best candidates stay.

Not sure if that's legal, but i'd like to think that would be the fairest way and all the best people stay, and to be fair if you're struggling and have to lose people it's surely better to keep the best to try to help pull you out of the sh*t.

This is how it was done during our last few redundancies,people not jobs and then people put into other peoples places when they where gone...
Mind you, this is not an issue with this last lot we're going through...

Yup, what do you think they are? A two bit operation that can't build a tram system without spending close on a billion quid, oh hang on...

Bits of paper and an old hat sounds organised for Edinbuggers TBH.

Was this not the same Council who went to referendum on the introduction of a congestion charge?

I've had numerous dealings on the subject of improving local air quality & traffic management with them in the past, it soon became apparent that their arse and elbow were in different galaxies

Have they moved off Princes Street yet ?

Nope.

Bloody hell.

So there is no chance of them having reached Leith by the time I make it there in August ?

It isn't going to Leith any more.