[ViridianFan]

Just to be clear they wouldn’t have to come to any kind of agreement for them to leave and in line with any employer could in fact tell them they are redundant and that they will be given their contractual redundancy payment (or legal minimum if there is nothing in their contracts offering a greater amount).

You cannot make someone redundant and give someone else the the role as that means the role was no longer redundant. Especially as there were questions over the original process and i would also say there are questions about the investigation of the original process as it was led by someone connected to the BBC board and as one successful candidate stated they were told they’d got a place and the investigation said they weren’t. 

When you’re making someone redundant you’re saying the skills their job involves are no longer required. Well that would mean theyd be unable to employ anyone new to present.