Do I have any rights?

tootiemac

Please bare with me as I explain this.

So I work for a large agency who supplies workers to a very large global company. I started working here in Oct of 2010 , so 2 yrs 1 months and 4 days to be exact.

I started work as a member of a 6 person team call "Sell" which is part of a larger 16 person onsite team (even bigger out with this office).

Anyway within the first 6 months of starting 2 of the 6 people were let go as no longer needed. All fine we are all still only doing work related to the "sell" team. After this the remaining 4 people in our team started to take on other responsibilities related to work within the larger team not connected to the "sell" work.

Start of this year consultation period started as they wanted to reduce the team by 1 more person. I was accepting of still being classed as part of the "sell" team as 50% of my workload still related to the "sell" team.

I survived that cut but here I stand all 3 remaining members of the "sell" team up for redundancy with only 1 to be selected to remain.

I now get less than 5% of my workload from sell work where as the other 2 member have 90% and above of theirs from the "sell".

What I want to know is is there anything to protect me from this as the majority of my job is not leaving but the whole of the "sell" team job is??

sorry just trying to clutch at straws as I really like the job I do now and don't really want to leave.

Thanks in advance!

tootiemac

Anybody got any advice, insight, comments at all??

p00hsticks

tootiemac wrote: »

Anybody got any advice, insight, comments at all??

Just so you don't think you're being ignored....

Personally, I' m not 100% sure that I understand what you are saying ....

From the way I read it .....

You are in a team of three people, of which two (exactly which two is to be decided) now face redundancy.

However, you only spend 5% of your job doing the work that is being made redundant and the others spend 90% of their time doing that.

some queries /observation that might be pertinent ...

How did it come about that the majority of work for you comes from elsewhere rather than from within the "sell" team ?

The fact that you spend so little time doing 'Sell' work certainly suggests that there's insufficient such work for three people and so the opportunity to make at least one redundant.

Is there any real difference in what the 'Sell' and 'non-sell' work that is being done actually entails ? Why is this non "sell' work being done primarily by you rather than shared between the three of you ? Is it because it requires skills or knoweldge that only you possess ?

Are there any redundancies being made in the 'non-sell' area of the business ?

tootiemac

Thanks for the reply p00hsticks.
Was starting to wonder if my question made sense.

Around 3 months ago I was told to go through the process of handing over my final responsibility for the "sell" team to one of the other 2 people but this never came around due to system errors and holidays.

In answer to your questions

1. the majority of my work comes from other sources because it was deemed I had the skills required to take on these projects when they arose.
Before now I did have a larger involvement in the "sell" team but my involvement got automated and I have never been given other responsibilities from this team to fill this gap. Hence I gained other projects from out with.

2. Yes the Non-sell team do a completely different job which requires a different skill set.
As I said I took on the non sell work when it was only starting and it has grown to fill the gap as responsibilities were removed from me in terms of "sell" team.

3. No only team under threat is the "Sell" Team.