Rights and Wrongs when making people redundant?

slugger09

I've always read

"Its important to remember its the job thats be made redundant not you"

We recently had a few redundancies, I put in for mine and got turned down, so why am I doing a job of someone who got made redundant who didn't want to go? It wasn't the job that was made redundant it was the person, its been the same with the 10 or so other redundancies the jobs are still there, just more pressure on the rest of us to do our own jobs as well as those who have been made redundant.

Then we have the matrix used to pick people for redundancies, I thought those made redundant were allowed to see how this was worked out, No one has seen it, in fact we don't think one was used.

Googlewhacker

cost is a big factor at the end of the day....

jazzyman01

The Company will be wanting to save money. They should have gone through meaningful consultation. If they said they were using a matrix selection process then the individuals selected would be able to see the matrix and their scoring. They could ask to see other scores, but not the names.

When asking for volunteers, it may well be that your scores were significantly higher than the others and that you may have a skill set that is essential therefore they could not accept your VR.

What the Company will be saying is that there were say 12 posts and they actually do not need 12 people to do the jobs but there may be some tasks that have to be reallocated but the majority of the role has gone.

heretolearn_2

You are confusing 'job' - as in someone's employed role, and 'job' as in task.

The jobs have gone even though the tasks have remained and have been redistributed to other employees, So their job has gone, and your job contract has changed (which is another matter altogether). If it were just the person and not the job gone, the company would have had to replace them with a new member of staff.

If we decided to cut costs by making our receptionist redundant, then the job as in all the tasks remain - we still have to answer the phone, greet visitors, deal with the post etc. But the job as in a specific single person doing all that as their role, has gone. We'd split all those tasks among remaining staff.