Christchurch workers set to lose their jobs might be given a second chance - if they're willing to move overseas.

Around 50 ABCorp staff will be sacked if the company's plans to move to New South Wales, Australia go ahead.

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E Tu spokesperson Joe Gallagher said there's been some indication there are around 29 new jobs in the company's Sydney plant.

"Sydney's got a crazier hosing market than New Zeland so it is extremely unlikely that a lot of these people would be continuing to work for the company."

The company's set a consultation period of three-weeks, but Gallagher said it's just a legality.

"Nothing that we do during that consultation process, in my view, will change the outcome and that is that they are going to cease production."