Redundancy law...where do I stand ?

zogg

Hi all, looking for advice.

1. Company ask for voluntary redundancies.

2. Insufficient numbers apply.

3. Company then issue compulsory redundancy notices.

4. Staff informed that working hours must be more flexible in order business runs as well with less staff.

In the event of this flexibility of hours being unachievable voluntarily, can the company issue new contracts of employment requiring staff to be available 24/7 within the confines of their contracted hours..(e.g. 40 hour week) ?

For instance. If I worked 5 x 7 hour days from 8am-3pm, can the company now force me to work 5 x 7 hour days from 3pm - 10pm to accommodate the reduction in man hours due to redundancies ?

Hope you can understand the question....

Nassy

Hi

I am afraid I am a bit confused by your post. Is your employer asking you to do more hours for the same money? If this is so, that would seem odd in the light of a redundancy situation ie normally redundancies are made because the need for a particular type of work diminishes.. If there is no business need to reduce a type of work then this could signal there is no true redundancy situation to begin with.

If your employer is wanting people to change their shifts (as you describe in your example) or reduce hours and is issuing new contracts, then the employees would normally have the choice to either a) accept the new terms and conditions or b) take redundancy :cool: That would seem perfectly acceptable to me. In fact if your employer is offering reduced hours/ change of shifts as an alternative to redundancy I would argue that they are being quite open minded in their approach..