made redundant with low bradford points score

brummie_boy_2

I have just been told i am being made redundant with a low Bradford score of just 36, they looked over a 3 year period to get to this number.Surely this awful formula was never intended for this purpose & is just an abuse of the system,please any advise would be very grateful.

NJW69

If they are clear about the criteria they are using and apply this equally then I suppose it's up to them.

brummie_boy_2

It all boiled down to what pool you were in, i am a lorry driver & was placed in a pool of 15 with 6 jobs available the criteria involved 4 elements with the highest scores being made redundant.
After 3 elements which were driving license lol/disciplinary in last 12 months/plus service with eveybody 10 years & over receiving 0 we were all on 0 which is hardly surprising really.
It all went down to abscence & i got a bradford score of 36 which put me in 6th position, then the night before they handed us the redundancy letters they had reduce the number of jobs down to 4 even though in the previous 2 months of consultation with the unions they had said there would be 6 jobs.

markandkate

Provided the system is transparent and fair they can use whatever system they like. You do have the right to an appeal

brummie_boy_2

markandkate wrote: »

Provided the system is transparent and fair they can use whatever system they like. You do have the right to an appeal

Some employees haden't been there 3 years so is it fair we have been judged over a 3 year period? I have an appeal on thursday.

dragoneye454

Sometimes it is written in the contract that they will use the bradford factor in this sort of situation.
It is a horrible system I must admit though.
Hope you come out ok in the end

Googlewhacker

brummie_boy wrote: »

Some employees haden't been there 3 years so is it fair we have been judged over a 3 year period? I have an appeal on thursday.

there has to be a limit of somesort....what would you propose they do differant?

brummie_boy_2

dragoneye454 wrote: »

Sometimes it is written in the contract that they will use the bradford factor in this sort of situation.
It is a horrible system I must admit though.
Hope you come out ok in the end

We had our own historic agreement including our own redundancy criteria, they ignored this & went with there own which as i have explained heavily stacked towards abscence.

brummie_boy_2

Googlewhacker wrote: »

there has to be a limit of somesort....what would you propose they do differant?

Well if they are judging somebody's sickness over 2 years because that is how long he has been there , i would think we should have all been judged over the same period;)

Googlewhacker

brummie_boy wrote: »

Well if they are judging somebody's sickness over 2 years because that is how long he has been there , i would think we should have all been judged over the same period;)

I suspect that 3 years is the standard to go back to, only guessing really but it maybe worth looking at.#

I guess over the last two years you are in the top 4 then?

brummie_boy_2

Googlewhacker wrote: »

I suspect that 3 years is the standard to go back to, only guessing really but it maybe worth looking at.#

I guess over the last two years you are in the top 4 then?

No i cant get in the top 4 even if it was over 2 years:( the criteria is very unfair in my opinion i have worked for the company 27 years & iam gone but a guy who has only been there 2 years is safe, because he had 15 days off in one go as opposed to my 2 occassions in 3 years totalling 9 days.HR said i was unfortunate:mad: