Redundancy advice

northernirelandgirl

I'm 30 weeks pregnant and recently been told my job is under threat. Basically 2 of us do the same job and they only want one. They have asked one of us to volunteer which I don't think neither of us want to volunteer so it will come down to points.
However I have read the criteria and I feel that they can't fairly score me on it
First is performance review I haven't had a piper performance review in 2 years and it wasn't for the role I do now can they still go ahead with nothing recent.

Second attendance I've had a few days sick here and there but 2 years ago I was off due to almost dying after huge blood loss following miscarriage this was all documented by sick lines surely pregnancy related sickness can't be counted?

Third whilst we have the same job title we do different things in line of our job roles so I'm not sure we can be compared like for like.

On the basis of the above can they go ahead and fairly score both of us?

I asked them to consider letting me have a career break instead of redundancy but this was refused. They haven't offered any other suggestions.

sangie595

As far as the performance review is concerned, you have to ask them how they can score something you haven't had. They may be reviewing the performance as a result of this redundancy - or may mean something else. But without being clear what they mean it is hard to say.

On the third issue, again you should ask, but normally you would be scored against the criteria for the new job - how good a match to it you are. Like for like, in the way you mean it, it often not possible, so you compare against a new criteria in most circumstances the new job.

Pregnancy related sickness cannot be counted. So anything related to the miscarriage (And I am sorry to hear about that) should not be counted as sickness for this exercise.

All of that said, if they have already made up their minds (which they shouldn't have done, but it happens) then they would have to be exceedingly stupid not to be able to make the scores say what they want them to say. Challenging scores is exceedingly hard to do, because in the end they are the only people who can allocate scores - a tribunal. for example, would have to accept the scores as correct because they can't mark scores on people.

To be fair, on the last point, if there is a redundancy situation needed, I wouldn't let you have a career break either. It doesn't mean that they will have a job for you to come back to, and it just makes the redundancy more expensive as you get more continuous service. Such an idea would really only have value if there was a degree of certainty they could offer you a job when you returned.

northernirelandgirl

Thankyou it's very helpful information.