[Redundancy] - offshoring to higher grade?!

Auh1989

Morning all - I have recently been made aware that I am going to be made redundant with my work to be moved to the offshore team (same company). The business justification for this was to align similar business processes. However recently it has now come to light that due to a recruitment freeze within our business new colleagues cannot be recruited for these roles. Instead the proposed resolution to this is to use offshore colleagues who have the capacity to take this work on. The colleagues who will now be taking the work are not in the correct business unit the work belongs in and goes against the business justification for this change? They have also told us this business area doesn't have people our grade and our tasks will now be completed by people a grade higher.

Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this? I'm not clues of the the guidelines and regulations around this at all but would appreciate everyone's thoughts on this one?

Thanks

sangie595

I think you are probably not the only person who sees illogic in the argument - but the essential question is whether the law does or not, and it doesn't. The employer doesn't have to prove their business case in law. They have to prove they have followed a correct redundancy process, and having a sound business case isn't one of the requirements. In very basic terms, it is their business and if they want to offshore the jobs then they can. What they must do is to consult appropriately, listen to what you say (but they don't have to agree with you, even if you are right), look at any possible alternatives to redundancy, and pay you the right amount with the right amount of notice. That's basically all they have to do.

motorguy

sangie595 wrote: »

I think you are probably not the only person who sees illogic in the argument - but the essential question is whether the law does or not, and it doesn't. The employer doesn't have to prove their business case in law. They have to prove they have followed a correct redundancy process, and having a sound business case isn't one of the requirements. In very basic terms, it is their business and if they want to offshore the jobs then they can. What they must do is to consult appropriately, listen to what you say (but they don't have to agree with you, even if you are right), look at any possible alternatives to redundancy, and pay you the right amount with the right amount of notice. That's basically all they have to do.

+1. Totally agree.

The other thing i would add is that it is the role that is no longer required and therefore the person doing it is displaced / made redundant. If the company wants to add the responsibilities of that role to someone of a higher pay grade then they are free to do so.