More redundancies at club

[spud1950]

On sunday after the game 12 long term staff have been made reduntant .Some have been their over twenty years .Some of the chefs etc have won awards and cooked for randy.But no one is safe while  they need to claw money back.There will be others in the near future .

[N'ZMAV]

That's a shame.

[peter w]

Are they full-time employed by the club? Agency staff? Part-time etc?

[Chris Smith]

Commiserations to anyone losing their job and presumably worrying times for remaining employees. It's also a reality check for anyone suggesting that the financial restrictions were about to be lifted. Money might be made available for transfer fees but wages will still need to be strictly controlled.

[Risso]

Are they full-time employed by the club? Agency staff? Part-time etc?

You can't make agency staff redundant.

[N'ZMAV]

Are they full-time employed by the club? Agency staff? Part-time etc?

You can't make agency staff redundant.

you just call the agency and ask them not to send them again

[N'ZMAV]

a lot of companies are still feeling the hard times. It's crap.

[richardhubbard]

If they are losing money at rate stated, it is not really suprising aston villa are not a charity

[Dave Cooper please]

Makes me wonder if we were a little bit bloated staff wise before?

Don't like to see people losing their jobs though.

[Risso]

Makes me wonder if we were a little bit bloated staff wise before?

Don't like to see people losing their jobs though.

Possibly, but in the grand scale of things, 12 people earning an average £20,000 a year isn't very much when it comes to a Premier League fooball club.  It's probably one month's wages for Emile Heskey to put it into perspective.  I think anybody thinking that the sale of The Browns is going to lead to better things financially for us is barking up the wrong tree.  I'm only guessing, but I reckon it was maybe a case of having to sell, rather than wanting to.

[peter w]

About agency staff - that's my point.

[Hairbandinho]

Makes me wonder if we were a little bit bloated staff wise before?

Don't like to see people losing their jobs though.

Possibly, but in the grand scale of things, 12 people earning an average £20,000 a year isn't very much when it comes to a Premier League fooball club.  It's probably one month's wages for Emile Heskey to put it into perspective.  I think anybody thinking that the sale of The Browns is going to lead to better things financially for us is barking up the wrong tree.  I'm only guessing, but I reckon it was maybe a case of having to sell, rather than wanting to.

You are definitely wrong there. Randy didn't sell the Browns because he had to financially, he sold them because ultimately this was his first chance too as he didn't want to ever own them. He was just obliged too.

He just wants to be a fan..

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Makes me wonder if we were a little bit bloated staff wise before?

Don't like to see people losing their jobs though.

Possibly, but in the grand scale of things, 12 people earning an average £20,000 a year isn't very much when it comes to a Premier League fooball club.  It's probably one month's wages for Emile Heskey to put it into perspective.  I think anybody thinking that the sale of The Browns is going to lead to better things financially for us is barking up the wrong tree.  I'm only guessing, but I reckon it was maybe a case of having to sell, rather than wanting to.

I agree.
Dream like mantras about us spending big again are wide of the mark.
Faulkner also stated that the Browns sale would make zero diffrence to Villa, good or bad.

[Karl Bridges]

Awaard winning hospitality staff will not be out of work for long.

[Toronto Villa]

Sad though it is for anyone to lose their job it's also a part of almost every business on the planet. It might not have anything directly to do with austerity measures. Villa pride themselves on their tremendous service and I'm sure they don't want to sacrifice that. However, businesses always look for ways of becoming more efficient and we don't know the background to this to understand this decision fully.