Is this legal?

duggo1

My husband works for a large global company. Over the last few months he was asked to train colleagues in India how to do his job, and to write a user guide. He did ask why, and was told it was back up in case he and his UK colleague were off ill or on holiday. Yesterday my husband and his UK colleague were both told they were being made redundant and their work is moving to India.
Is this legal? Does he have grounds for unfair dismissal?

getmore4less

Perfectly legal.

Obvious it would happen as soon as the india team were up to speed.

TBagpuss

Yes, his job is now redundant because his job no longer exists in this country. The company should follow appropriate procedures for redundancy, including considering whether there are other suitable roles within the company, and if not, your husband may (depending on his length of service) be entitled to a redundancy payment

maninthestreet

This has happened to too many people.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Name and shame them OP

patman99

The secret is to make sure to put loads of subtle errors in the guide so that should the work then be out-sourced, the new staff will end-up making the company look really incompetent.

getmore4less

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Name and shame them OP

They all move jobs around world nothing special with this case.

duggo1

Thanks everyone for the advice. I have no doubt that there will be problems with the work even without writing errors in the guide! I couldn't possibly name the large global company, normally better known for manufacturing printers...

warmhands.coldheart

That's the problem with Big Global companies.... they do not have the real commitment to staff that a local company would have and will just up and move sticks as soon as a cheaper option becomes available...

jjlandlord

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

they do not have the real commitment to staff that a local company would have and will just up and move sticks as soon as a cheaper option becomes available...

Well a 'resource' is a 'resource' and an Indian 'resource' is cheaper...

warmhands.coldheart

jjlandlord wrote: »

Well a 'resource' is a 'resource' and an Indian 'resource' is cheaper...

Indeed, but how frustrating is it when you phone a technical helpline only to get someone called James, speaking broken English, who can barely understand you and his list of options on his computer screen doesn't cover your problem..