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Savvy_Sue

isplumm wrote: »

The question is - is this the same job as what you were doing??

If so then I suggest you complain ... not sure who to ACAS?

Mark

I'd certainly complain to the Job Centre that it seems to be the job you've just been made redundant from!

isplumm

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I'd certainly complain to the Job Centre that it seems to be the job you've just been made redundant from!

Hi,

That was my question - is it the same job - the OP doesn't say!!

Mark

DMWG81

It is the exact same job yes. They haven't even changed the duties and the job title from when i applied all those months ago!

I asked a friend to apply for the job, he telephoned them and they said there was a 46 hours a week permanent position available. He asked what duties he would have and they told him pretty much the same as what i had been doing. He has an 'interview' on Friday :rolleyes:

st999

Why don't you go to the interview in his place?:D

Stan

DMWG81

st999 wrote: »

Why don't you go to the interview in his place?:D

Stan

He's not going, he just done it to see what would happen but that is very tempting... :rotfl:

dori2o

IF a company is making redundancies, do they not have a standard proceedure to follow, i.e. a notice period, formal letter of intention to make redundancies, meetings (for which notes should be taken) with employees, a selection process for those to be made redundant that is fair and proper?

Savvy_Sue

That's the theory ...

Zazen999

macman wrote: »

Some of the exceptions to the one year rule are shown on this link.
In the case of the OP, the last point might apply (dismissal just prior to end of one year period to avoid qualifying for unfair dismissal protection). Interesting that the one exception to this is for serious cases such as dismissal for theft-of course in this instance the OP has not been dismissed for theft (or so the employer has stated)
http://www.compactlaw.co.uk/monster/empq14.html

Zazen999 wrote: »

Have you a reference for this please? All employment law I've encountered states within one year you can be dismissed on any grounds, and a tribunal will only take on a case if it can be shown that they dismissed due to discrimination.

macman wrote: »

Not technically correct. They can't dismiss without grounds once the employee has served out their probationary period, which is normally 3 months.
They can make the job redundant, as they claim to have done. But if so, they can't then readvertise the same job, the same day.
Any employment lawyer would have a field day with that, and rightly so.

The exceptions on your link ARE due to discrimination; can you please provide a link that says that employers cannot dismiss without grounds once an employee has served out their probationary period?

Zazen999

DMW - has your colleague been suspended?

Were the management aware that you weren't in on the day that the parcel was delivered?

valos_mummy

st999 wrote: »

Why don't you go to the interview in his place?:D

Stan

I'd get the mate to go (if the OP goes they might not let him into the interview), go through it, then at the end when they ask if the mate has any questions; to say they are a friend of DMWG81 who had this role before being made redundant, and would they care to explain why the exact same job has been advertised on the day of the redundancy?

Then afterwards ask the mate to describe the look on their faces