Missing out "at risk" staff from consultation

danidurrant

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help???? On 3rd May a consultation process started at the college that I work at regarding redundancy.

I work as a tutor and there are 3 other tutors teaching the same subject at the campus that I work on, however we are all employed by the same college (despite it having 3 sites). We understood the reasoning behind our department needing to be scaled down, but what did not make sense was why tutors teaching the same subject at us at different campuses had not been included in the "At Risk" list.

It has been announced today (2 weeks in to our original consultation) that a mistake had been made at the remaining tutors were now to become "At Risk" with their consultation starting today. Obviously the college had not looked at the issues correctly and have behaved illegally in the first instance.

I have in fact applied for voluntary redundancy which I was suposed to receive a decision about on 3rd June,. However the original 4 staff memberswho were put in the first consultation do no know if our consultation period is going to be extended by a further 30 days. We feel this is unfair as we have already bee in the pool for 2 weeks. In addition we have been told that what may happen is that our consultation may end and then be placed "at risk" again.

This is making things very difficult in the search for employment as we are even further in the dark now then we were to start with.

Can anyone advise????

Emmzi

they can extend and there is no max period.

SarEl

The employers haven't been acting illegally - they may have been acting unlawfully if they had realised that they made a mistake and then decided to do nothing about it. Mistakes do happen, but an employer is expected to correct them, and that is what they are doing. It would not have been unlawful unless they proceeded regardless. I realise that it is very stressful being in this position, but two weeks is actually a very short period of time in this sort of exerecise. Some people, by law, have to have a three month consultation, and that is a long time to wait to hear whether you have been selected.

getmore4less

This is an example of why employers should do consultation.

It gives them a chance to hear arguments and correct any mistakes.


I thought most education establishments worked on terms any way so they have a target of next academic year if they start now, which starts around Sept and usualy terminate previous contracts end(ish) Aug to make sure the holidays work properly.

So they have plenty of time to make up their minds who they want to keep.

The sensible thing would be to set the time line for everyone at the later dates,

Anyway consultation carries on till it is finishes there is no min/max period as people think, it is termination dates that are covered by the 30/90 rule