Can they get out of redundancy this way?

Spud_2

My current job is potentially at risk and there is a chance that I will be able to stay with the company and 'offered' another similar job that is at the other end of the country. It's not feasible for me to uproot and move 500-odd miles away to accept the job, but I've heard that it might be possible for the company to say that as I will be walking away from another job they have offered me, I won't be entitled to redundancy? This doesn't seem right to me, can anyone offer me some advice?

Thanks

bryanb

If your job will no longer exist, that is redundancy.
Whether you choose to accept another job is your decision, and would not affect redundancy. Although if you chose to accept the company would not need to pay redundancy, as you would be accepting a transfer.

LittleVoice

Even if you were to accept the new job, it should be on the basis that if it is not working out for either party then the redundancy would still apply.

marksoton

Spud wrote: »

My current job is potentially at risk and there is a chance that I will be able to stay with the company and 'offered' another similar job that is at the other end of the country. It's not feasible for me to uproot and move 500-odd miles away to accept the job, but I've heard that it might be possible for the company to say that as I will be walking away from another job they have offered me, I won't be entitled to redundancy? This doesn't seem right to me, can anyone offer me some advice?

Thanks

Sounds like the company are enacting a standard procedure. To make you redundant they have to prove they have made an effort to offer you employment elsewhere within the company.

Spud_2

Thanks everyone.

Andy_L

If your contract has a "mobility obligation" you may have to take the job 500 miles away or resign. If you don't have such an obligation then, imv, it wouldn't be "unreasonable" to refuse & redundancy would be payable.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/EmploymentContractsAndConditions/DG_10028541