other staff refuse redeployment

tony_wow

Hi

Theres a coupl of redundancies taking place at work and im on the hit list. Theres 2 from 5 basically.

Anyway, ive just discovered that one member of staff was offered redeployment back to the role he did when he first started. He refused that offer even though he knew it would save at tleast one redundancy. My question is, if he has been offered and refused, can they still make someone else, not him, redundant? If that makes sense.

Thanks

getmore4less

Yes, as long as the process is followed.

You don't have to accept anything till you are selected for redundancy you still have a job.

If the job is a suitable alternative then they will have a bigger problem refusing if they are selected.

p00hsticks

so basically he's decided to risk redundancy in his current position rather than go back to doing the job he was in before ?

As far as I'm aware he's perfectly within his rights to do that.

WestonDave

I suspect the real question here is whether his refusal to take the other role automatically puts him in line for redundancy rather than the OP - answer no. The criteria for selecting for redundancy will be seperate from any criteria that might mean he could do another job.

Obviously if he had the right skills to go back and be a gas fitter (for example), it might mean that there are now only 4 in the pool rather than 5 so only one goes, but if your team role is managing the pool of gas fitters out on the road, then his ability to go back to being a gas fitter doesn't affect the fact that you might be the 4th best manager and so get the chop.

tony_wow

Yes, it still puts him in the frame for redundancy but the chances are he wont get it. I think he was asked to save our jobs rather than his own.

His official job title is still the same as his original job, ie the one they asked him to redeploy back too. Its neither a promotion nor demotion. He moved to this department to do a role we had a shortage for, now we need to reduce staff he refuses to go back to his original job.

Can the company still make redundancies if there is scope for redeployment?

getmore4less

They should look at the suitability of the job for others.

Thing is they could have avoided this, if the role would allready be covered by contract(most allow a lot of flexability), by just putting them back in the old role before starting the redundancy process.