Can anyone help or give advice please

HLDUNN

Hi,

if anyone can help or offer some advice or guidance i would be very grateful, My son went for an interview for a job, he was offered the job to start on the 14th of this month after serving his months notice with his current employer, where he is a team leader in a call centre, a job he was happy with but for the past 2 years having to commute 2 hours everyday, (since moving in with his partner) his partner is now pregnant and he wanted to do less travelling but also the new job was £2000 a year more, yesterday the employer he was supposed to be starting his new job with emailed him and told him he no longer had a job due to budget cuts and restructuring, no apology, nothing, so from the 13th of February, through no fault of his own, my son will be unemployed, is this legal and can anything be done, any advice would be really appreciated.

Many Thanks

tazwhoever

Ask the previous employer if the job still exists and ask them if they would have him back. The new employer can get him out in first two years without a reason.

motorguy

HLDUNN wrote: »

Hi,

if anyone can help or offer some advice or guidance i would be very grateful, My son went for an interview for a job, he was offered the job to start on the 14th of this month after serving his months notice with his current employer, where he is a team leader in a call centre, a job he was happy with but for the past 2 years having to commute 2 hours everyday, (since moving in with his partner) his partner is now pregnant and he wanted to do less travelling but also the new job was £2000 a year more, yesterday the employer he was supposed to be starting his new job with emailed him and told him he no longer had a job due to budget cuts and restructuring, no apology, nothing, so from the 13th of February, through no fault of his own, my son will be unemployed, is this legal and can anything be done, any advice would be really appreciated.

Many Thanks

I would have thought, as per the previous response there, he needs to talk to his current employer, explain the change in circumstance and see if they are willing to keep him on.

Not much else to be done i'm afraid.

DCFC79

Yes of course its legal, he hadn't started at the new employer yet, even if he had started he could be let go within the first 2 years.

What can be done is for him to speak to current employer as suggested but also apply for other jobs.

robatwork

It's legal.

Imagine if he had been there a week and decided that he didn't fit, or there was no budget for the job and "let him go". Would you expect some legal comeback?

It's part of the risk of moving jobs - and his current employer may well welcome him back if they really valued him. But you couldn't blame them for not doing so - either they have filled his role, decided to have fewer team leaders, or won't take him back as he isn't loyal.

TBagpuss

Unfortunately for your son, yes, this is legal, and there isn't anything he can do, other than asking his current employer whether they are willing to allow him to rescind his notice and stay in his current job, or alternatively, whether there are any other openings.

Savvy_Sue

I have a feeling (from other threads here) that the now not-to-be employer should pay him contractual notice - which I think would be a week, but maybe better than nothing!