Query re Redundancy laws and being replaced.

scat

My partner was employed by the Police as a CCTV operator for 10 years. Basically the contract was handed over to a private company, he ceased to be a Police civillian employee, and re-deployed to another area with few transport links rendering it difficult to commute. Several months later all three of the staff who formerly worked for the Police were offered redundancy, which due to a variety of reasons; transport difficulties, unprofessional conduct of new company employees, they all accepted. This evening we heard a rumour that these employees were now working within the police station doing their old job. We phoned the number and sure enough one of them answered and confirmed they had been asked to work on site. Have to say I am appalled as the reason they accepted redundancy was because their jobs were supposedly redundant! How can it be lawful to simply replace them with untrained cheaper alternatives? Feel very angry about it - does my partner have any rights under law?

LittleVoice

scat wrote: »

My partner was employed by the Police as a CCTV operator for 10 years. Basically the contract was handed over to a private company, he ceased to be a Police civillian employee, and re-deployed to another area with few transport links rendering it difficult to commute. Several months later all three of the staff who formerly worked for the Police were offered redundancy, which due to a variety of reasons; transport difficulties, unprofessional conduct of new company employees, they all accepted. This evening we heard a rumour that these employees were now working within the police station doing their old job. We phoned the number and sure enough one of them answered and confirmed they had been asked to work on site. Have to say I am appalled as the reason they accepted redundancy was because their jobs were supposedly redundant! How can it be lawful to simply replace them with untrained cheaper alternatives? Feel very angry about it - does my partner have any rights under law?

Checking -
... your OH and 3 others were TUPE'd to the company which received the contract to supply the service they had directly provided to the Police as civilian employees
... the new employer assigned them to different jobs in a different location, which they accepted
... some time later they were in a redundancy in the new location
... the other three have since been re-engaged by the new employer (not directly by the Police) in roles they used to perform

Law as I understand it -
... their job became the one at the new location, their role with the Police was no longer "their" job
... redundancy was from whatever their new role was - legal
... if the new company had placed other employees in the Police jobs but some had not performed to their satisfaction but their dismissal or assignment to different roles was not completed by the time the redundancies were progressing, then they could recruit the previously redundant employees to replace them - legal