Seconded - now made redundant

Jacobs_mom

Hi, for the past 18 months I have been seconded to a different department (no new contract signed but the company has employed someone permanent in my original job so I can't go back there).
There were 2 of us who were seconded and 1 post had to be made redundant. Normally the company has always put secondees back into their original department when a redundancy situation has occurred but not this time. I have been made redundant as I had been at the company for a shorter time than the other secondee.

Someone mentioned to me that I may have a claim for unfair dismissal.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

The company did not offer me my old job back, just told me of other vacancies available in the company which i was not qualified for.

Thanks in advance.

fengirl_2

You have not been dismissed, so unfair dismissal does not come into it. You have been made redundant and one of the criteria for redundancy is:

'the requirements of the business for the employees to carry out work of a particular kind, in the place where they were so employed, has ceased or
diminished or are expected to cease or diminish.'

This seems to apply to you.

The fact that your written contract was not amended when you changed jobs within the organisation is not relevent as you have been doing the new job for 18mths, showing that you accepted the new job.

LittleVoice

fengirl wrote: »

You have not been dismissed, so unfair dismissal does not come into it.

The OP has been dismissed - dismissed on the grounds of redundancy. Redundancy is one of the fair reasons for dismissal.

Only way of claiming anything in addition to redundancy pay is if proper procedure was not followed - and it seems to have been in this case.

Jacobs_mom

Thanks for your replies.

I'm in Unite the Union, so I think I'll see what they say.