Ms Jo McCarthy:

As an employer you would be a little bit slow to take on a reservist if you knew that you had to let someone go for up to six months. You may have already invested in their training and everything. You have probably already put something into their pension and so on and they are just gone. Who is now going to do that role? Am I going to have to invest again in someone for six months? Are they going to leave? There is a lot to sort out there,