"That would give us a lot more time to mitigate these jobs and gives people an opportunity to find jobs", he said.
Unite will be doing everything possible to mitigate these job losses which are a hammer blow to the UK's IT sector and very distressing for employees in the run-up to Christmas".
Brian Williams, Guardian father of the chapel for the National Union of Journalists, said: "We are encouraged by the fact the company is seeking voluntary redundancies and is looking to mitigate potential job losses by finding other cost-cutting measures".
The pain of disruption is very real, and policy makers should take concrete steps to both mitigate potential job losses and allay unfounded fears.
He said that Total was mitigating the job losses by moving refinery workers and their families to places like Jubail, Saudi Arabia, where Total recently opened a refinery complex.
Growth, Mr Singh's government has always believed, would spur investments and savings, create more jobs, mitigate the adverse impact of inflation and propel India's "emerging economy" to the high-table of fast-growing nations.
"The company, during the next stage of consultation, will continue to focus on reducing the number of redundancies and, as far as possible, explore all opportunities to mitigate the potential job losses".
It was our job, my job, to mitigate these risks and minimize the liabilities to the health of my men; to prevent them from sprouting like noxious weeds in the areas where we launched our field exercises.
"We will do as much as we can to mitigate the damage to jobs," he said.
He said the union would be doing its utmost to "mitigate" the number of jobs affected and "hopefully bring those numbers down".
