[Neil Jones]

Anybody with any sense looking at the workforce they'd inherited from the merger would say yeah these people seem to know what they're doing, they won't need retraining (or much in the way of retraining), lets keep as many of them as possible as it will be cheaper in the long run and we can keep this ship running (there probably would have been redundancies mind you).

Only a moron would lay off half the workforce just because and then decide to hire more people to replace them and pay out to train a bunch of people to do the same job of those they'd let go, and you'd cost the company more than it would have had you kept them in the first place!

Not sure how redundancy works when it comes to company mergers but pretty sure if you get kicked out because your company has merged with somebody else you'd get some redundancy money if they decide not to keep you.

TUPE laws seem to date from 1981.