working my redundancy notice?

parkmalco

hi,
i couldn't find an answer in the old threads for this here goes.
say i'm made redundant with 7 other people, and i have worked the the same co. for 8 years.i am given 8 years redundancy pay, but the company will require me to work my notice period of 8 years.which is 8 weeks work.
which is fair enough but, during this notice period the company wants me to work for another one of their companies doing a degrading job rifleing through skips at their recycling centre where i will be exposed to numerous health hazards.
this is because they don't want me working in customers houses.i am a tradesman and have numerous qualifications.and this job is totally unsuitable.
can they legally do this? make me work for a different company doing a totally different job during my notice period?
the truth is they want us to leave off our own backs.
this is a senario which is looking very likely for me as we have seen it with other employees in the past.
thanks for looking.

blossomhill_2

Sorry to hear that you are in this situation
I don't know the answer to the question of whether they can make you work elsewhere, but whatever work they require you to do must have a risk assessment detailing all the hazards and showing how they will manage out the risks to your health - any failure to either undertake a risk assessment or to manage the risks would put them in breach of H&S legislation