3 redundancies in 5 years?

sign of the times. don't take it personally.
and good luck

tough times.

The Compass Group and Compass Direct.

There has been in house talk of a Cull within the relief teams of one of the world’s largest catering companies for sometime.

Operations Managers have suggested to people that they know well and have been in touch with etc that they take on more “Full Time Roll’s” before they may face the company expulsion process themselves. This has been known of for some time. Even a company of this size cannot cover up all.

Obviously this has all been planned for some time and the Credit Crunch is being used as a front for redundancies.

This seems more likely to be the normal restructuring as the company constantly do. With the new faces onboard sweeping clean under the guise of a world crisis.

The problems appear to be more office based with a centralised control adopted recently, clearly not working as well as the earlier regional system. The company appear to be struggling with diseconomies of scale and centralisation.

Unrealistic redundancy plans have been on the cards for a long time and are covering up, the actual planned restructure that seems to be caused by those in control not being fully offay with the actual business.

In reality if the world’s largest caterer, needs to lose staff, they have major problems and this appears to be an appease the shareholders rather than a credit crunch ordeal,. A company operating in most of the world with over 500, 000 employees can obviously integrate those it wishes to and you would think need to keep it’s relief team intact.

However, it seems that in modern times, many are not interested in working weekends and the company plan is to recruit under a 5/7 scheme. Throwing back industrial relations etc, fifty or more years.

With many believing that you will always need to eat and they must be safe, it seems the company view is different.

Obviously the largest catering company in the world, have one of the largesr legal teams in the world, but to seem to follow the letter of the law regarding redundancies and actually doing are totally different.

The law requires in such cases a protection to employees, a legal team against Joe Blogs will make it seem legal. This requires a good investigative journalist and parliamentary debate etc.

If I were a share holder, would have serious worries and concerns, someone is not looking after your interests with the integrity you expect.