Chairman of the RAF FF shares her first thoughts on SDSR. "Uncertainty, has been created by the lack of a decision on some aspects of the SDSR. "It is corrosive to morale and we hope that the decisions will be made as quickly as possible so that personnel have some clarity and can make informed decisions about their own futures in the RAF. The reduction in the size of the RAF will undoubtedly cause significant pain to many RAF families who will find themselves potentially losing their home and their community and each job loss is a tragedy for the family concerned. People will be hoping for a redundancy package to soften the blow but we are less than sanguine that any financial package will be sufficient, when combined with the very poor job market outside and the swathe of cuts being enforced in other areas of public spending. It’s a cold wind blowing and there appears to be very little protection for those caught up in the force reduction programme...
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
A Body Blow - Dawn McCafferty, Chairman of the RAF Families Federation shares her concerns:
Chairman of the RAF FF shares her first thoughts on SDSR. "Uncertainty, has been created by the lack of a decision on some aspects of the SDSR. "It is corrosive to morale and we hope that the decisions will be made as quickly as possible so that personnel have some clarity and can make informed decisions about their own futures in the RAF. The reduction in the size of the RAF will undoubtedly cause significant pain to many RAF families who will find themselves potentially losing their home and their community and each job loss is a tragedy for the family concerned. People will be hoping for a redundancy package to soften the blow but we are less than sanguine that any financial package will be sufficient, when combined with the very poor job market outside and the swathe of cuts being enforced in other areas of public spending. It’s a cold wind blowing and there appears to be very little protection for those caught up in the force reduction programme...
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