How important is your job description in consultation meetings?

Notnewnotold

As the handle suggest, I'm not completely new round here.

Long story short, I have just had the proverbial 'tap on the shoulder'. In the meeting, and on the documentation I received, my job description was not defined correctly - strictly speaking it was half correct, let's say my role is 'head of x and y' (and this is documented in organisation charts etc) however they only included 'head of x'.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not grasping at straws here and frankly a few months tending the garden would not be the worst thing. But is this a legitimate situation where they are not consulting properly because they are only suggesting that half of my current role is no longer needed? If so, do I call them out on it at some point and they have to restart the process?

For what it's worth, this is a major global corporation and there would be a settlement agreement involved at the end.

Cheers

getmore4less

I suspect all they have to do is say sorry and change the title and carry on.

Consultation is a two way process to see if there are ways to reduce the impact of the redundancy or eliminate it

If you don't consult on ALL aspects of your role from the start that's as much your problem as theirs.

Notnewnotold

You may well be right, but part of what prompted the question was that I've had to deliver consultation messages in the past, and HR have always been very precise in getting the individuals job descriptions correct. May well be a case of it being out of respect and courtesy, but when the wording of the letter is along the lines of 'we do not believe that there will be a need for a head of x' then it does beg the question about the need for a continuing need for 'head of y' as it is not mentioned.

I'll be getting legal advice in due course anyway, was more a point of initial curiosity...

getmore4less

Just being in the role that is redundant does not automaticaly mean you are redundant.

It could just be that y is still needed but you won't be doing it anymore.

Is the use of X only in the context of it being no longer needed or as your job description