Unfair Dismissal??

unclebuck79 · 6 July 2013 at 6:55PM

Hello.

I was recently made redundant along with 150+ co-workers by a large construction firm in the utilities sector. Our firm started a 45 consultation period at the beginning of April and has just got around to making us redundant. The selection process was a points based system, where employees were given points for skills, disciplinary record, driving license and availability to work on-call. The remainder of the points were given on a question & answer session, with only text book answers containing key words gaining maximum points. There were 3 question papers in total covering 4 Employee groups ;

1 : Employee group 1
2 : Employee group 2
3 : Employee group 3 & 4

Every employee from each group was called to the yard individually over a period of approx 15 days, 4-5 days per question paper. Every employee from group 1 were asked the same questions, as so group 2, and finally group 3 & 4 were asked the same questions as each other. I was in Employee group 4 and when I was made redundant I raised the issue that the questions could have been relayed over the course of the 4-5 days, giving an unfair advantage/disadvantage to certain employees. The senior manager and HR rep`s defence was "Why would anybody inform others of the questions and risk putting their own job in jeapordy?"
I found this comment unbelievable, I has just lost my job, and could see a glaring hole in the selection process, and they come out with a comment which basically is saying people shouldn`t talk about the questions. Another flaw in his statement, is that an employee from Employee group 3 could tell his mate from Employee group 4 the questions, as the questions were the same but they would be pooled into different tables, therefor helping out a friend and not risking his own standing in his table.

Any help or guidance on if this is common practice or could be classed as unfair selection/dismissal would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Stuart.