Employer cutting hours or maybe redundancy

geminilady

I work for a contact cleaning company who have been told by the place of work they must cut over 70 hours a week from the contract.There are about 15 cleaners who all work various hours per day,one full time,one 7 hrs,I work 6 another five and the rest 2 or 2 1/2 hours.They have asked for people to volunteer to cut hours or be made redundant which I doubt will happen.Our manager has been asked to fill out a list for each of us giving points for timekeeping work standards,time off sick ect.What I would like to know is how do they decide by law who leaves or has hours cut?The lady at the initial meeting did say it was not first in last out ?

lottie_no1

I'm not too sure that there is anything written in law that the company uses to decide who has a reduction in hours but I could be wrong. I used to work for a contract cleaning company as a manager and we would always assess our staff against the request for reduction and their skills, we didn't actually make people redundant as we were usually able to move them to another place of work to offset the reduction.

jakky11

The alternative may be reduced hours or redundancy in the current economic situation.

Emmzi

first they look at who is willing to take less hours or go. this may balance out so there is no point setting selection criteria.

if it is reduced hours it will then tend to be what are you doing now/ where and how does that balance with what we need.

and if they need to let people go they need to establish a selection criteria that is fairly applied, but it could be anything. skills, timekeeping, absence. There is no universal standard.

geminilady

Emmzi wrote: »

first they look at who is willing to take less hours or go. this may balance out so there is no point setting selection criteria.

if it is reduced hours it will then tend to be what are you doing now/ where and how does that balance with what we need.

and if they need to let people go they need to establish a selection criteria that is fairly applied, but it could be anything. skills, timekeeping, absence. There is no universal standard.

There is just one person willing to go as he can get more hours in his other job but that still leaves 55 hours to find.As most only work two hours I cannot see them excepting less so we either loose five cleaners or the people on more hours loose a big chunk of theirs:(

liney

geminilady wrote: »

I work for a contact cleaning company who have been told by the place of work they must cut over 70 hours a week from the contract.There are about 15 cleaners who all work various hours per day,one full time,one 7 hrs,I work 6 another five and the rest 2 or 2 1/2 hours.They have asked for people to volunteer to cut hours or be made redundant which I doubt will happen.Our manager has been asked to fill out a list for each of us giving points for timekeeping work standards,time off sick ect.What I would like to know is how do they decide by law who leaves or has hours cut?The lady at the initial meeting did say it was not first in last out ?

This is a guide for employers making redundancies:
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1073792401&r.l1=1073858787&r.l2=1074450319&r.l3=1074019927&r.s=sc&type=RESOURCES

Read it so that you know what the employer should be doing.

It sounds like your employer had identified a 'Selection Criteria' or matrix, as it is normally known.