Redundancy Fears!!..Advice needed

minxymoi

Dear All

Please can I have some of your feedback on this please.

Last week myself and office manager had a meeting with my boss about possible redundancy as he cant afford us both. I work 2.5 days a week on a lower salary/per hr than her and she works 4 days on a higher salary/hr of pay than me. I can only see a job share to keep us both but if she refuses then I may be out of a job as she is office manager and I am office secretary. I spoke to my boss this morning and he said it was being based on hrs being cut and whats best for office, so this maybe keeping her and which results in me out of job, but to honest I do more in office responsibility/skills than she does!!...I have more skills in office than her of which she could learn from me so do you think he will keep her because she works 4 days and is office manager?..or do you think he will say she has to cut hrs?

I have had my notice letter for my meeting about this tomorrow and would like to be prepared.

Would be grateful of advice and comments. Thanks.

SarEl

I'm really sorry but we couldn't possibly tell you. This could go any way at all. All you can do is try to sell what you do. But he careful - do not say (as you did here) that she can learn from you or that you are better at things than her, Sell yourself, don't rubbish her. In the end this isn't personal, and you won't do yourself any favours by making it seem so.

getmore4less

No idea.

If this is a cost cutting exercise there either has to be less work than currently being paid for or someone is going to end up doing the same work for less money in shorter hours than the current total pay.

Things to consider if you want to protect your job

You are cheaper but can you do more hours if the total needed is more than your current hours
(from what you say perhaps not)

What is the total workload for both of you, who has the slack?

what does the manager do on top of the stuff you could/currently do?

What/who is the manager managing?

What happens currently for holiday sick cover?

This might be you best angle depending on the answer.

1 person might cause serious cover issues where as 2 people give more flexability.

How good is your insite into the operation the boss and manager

There may be a bit of game playing if the boss does not understand what gets done and how by who. Manager potentialy has a upper hand being in 4 days to sell themselves watch out for a suden interest in thisng you do that they no nothing about.

Also you have to be carefull how you justify your job because that identifies the handover requirements.

It is realy hard to say waht is best, you know your workplace and have to base your approach on that.

But underlying is how is the business doing, is it time to look even if you kep your jo

minxymoi

Thank you both for your constructive comments. I recieved this morning a letter for furthur discusussions and if I wish to apply for one position which is my colleagues - Office Manager - so we now have to both either apply for same job (colleagues job) or redundancy, or if either one of us doesnt get the job then obviously one of us is made redundant or not succesfull then can we get sacked?

getmoreforless - interesting what you say, since she has asked me to show her my roles so she can do them when im not there....and she had no interest before. My colleague (office manager) has said lately that she has problems with her hands and typing and cold potentially be off work on operations - not sure if boss knows this though....not sure if I say that I would look that good!!

KiKi

minxymoi wrote: »

if either one of us doesnt get the job then obviously one of us is made redundant or not succesfull then can we get sacked?

Assuming you've been there longer than a year, then you can't be sacked for your job disappearing; you can only be made redundant.

If you've been there less than 12 months, you can be dismissed - although any nice employer would put on a reference that it was due to redundancy (ie, you weren't sacked for capability or any other reason down to you).

HTH
KiKi