Re-Employment After Redundancy at same Company

Pitchshifter

Do employers have any duty to re-employ you if they made your job redundant and then 2 years later they have a vacancy for the EXACT same job? To be clear it's the exact role, to the letter, and the agency they're using has even copied/pasted from my own CV that I submitted to them before they reposted the advert.

This exact situation is happening to me and I want my old job back.
Do I have any rights to it?

robin_banks

Probably not......why don't you re-apply for it?

AP007

Pitchshifter wrote: »

Do employers have any duty to re-employ you if they made your job redundant and then 2 years later they have a vacancy for the EXACT same job? To be clear it's the exact role, to the letter, and the agency they're using has even copied/pasted from my own CV that I submitted to them before they reposted the advert.

This exact situation is happening to me and I want my old job back.
Do I have any rights to it?

I really don't think you have any rights not even after a few weeks I think they can re advertise the role.

I am sure someone can confirm that especially after 2 years now.

Pitchshifter

I know they can re-advertise, as I said in my post, I have applied for it.
Maybe what I mean is, seeing as they know they made me redundant, should they not be somewhat obliged to prioritse my application.

Well I guess we'll see, I'll give the agent a few more days then I'm contacting the company directly for a friendly chat. I did leave on good terms.

AP007

Pitchshifter wrote: »

I know they can re-advertise, as I said in my post, I have applied for it.
Maybe what I mean is, seeing as they know they made me redundant, should they not be somewhat obliged to prioritse my application.

Well I guess we'll see, I'll give the agent a few more days then I'm contacting the company directly for a friendly chat. I did leave on good terms.

No you wont get in above someone else, why would you?

Two years is a long time so they don't owe you anything to be honest.

anamenottaken

Pitchshifter wrote: »

I know they can re-advertise, as I said in my post, I have applied for it.
Maybe what I mean is, seeing as they know they made me redundant, should they not be somewhat obliged to prioritse my application.

Well I guess we'll see, I'll give the agent a few more days then I'm contacting the company directly for a friendly chat. I did leave on good terms.

There is no legal obligation on a former employer to consider you for any vacancy, even the day after the termination of your employment.

As you left on good terms, did you stay in touch in any way after you left?

Is it a large company where HR do initial screening? If it is - and especially if you would expect a lot of people would meet the essential requirements of the person spec - I would think a friendly call to someone who might be close to the recruitment decision process could be a good idea, sooner rather than later, just so they know you have applied.

borderline

Why was your position made redundant? did they hire anyone else after you left to do your job even if they changed the job title ?

anamenottaken

borderline wrote: »

Why was your position made redundant? did they hire anyone else after you left to do your job even if they changed the job title ?

Why do you ask?

colino

borderline asks a good question, positions are redundant in organisations, not individuals. Sounds like they wanted to just do a bit of people shuffling a couple of years ago without a genuine redundancy situation.

Takeaway_Addict

OP of course they don't have any obligations to you, how long would you expect the obligations to last for anyway, 2 years, 5 years forever?

anamenottaken

colino wrote: »

borderline asks a good question, positions are redundant in organisations, not individuals. Sounds like they wanted to just do a bit of people shuffling a couple of years ago without a genuine redundancy situation.

"People shuffling", as you call it, is something which can be part of a genuine redundancy situation.

There is no evidence from the original post that the situation was anything but genuine two years ago.