Am I being made redundant?

stephonice

I currently work part time in an admin team alongside another girl, also part time.

We have been told today by our new manager that she doesn’t think the team is working and is now amalgamating the two part time roles into one full time role. We have offered to do a traditional jobshare e.g 2.5 days each but she said ‘I know I am being selfish but it’s not how I want my department to run’. I am an administrator in a Human Resources department but deal with recruitment and have no knowledge about employment law. This manager i refer to is our HR Manager

We have both been employed just short of two years so no redundancy payment on the table but when we mentioned the word redundancy, she said this was not a redundancy situation.

If I haven’t resigned, been sacked or being made redundant, what other descriptions are there for being made unemployed?

Can anyone help me on this

Many thanks

[Deleted User]

There's various euphemisms you could use if you don't want to say sacked - let go, downsized, etc.

You can describe it whatever terms you want to a new employer - it needn't reflect badly on you.

[Deleted User]

You were secretly a fixed term worker? Which is now zero hours time condensed into the weeks or months an employer needs.

I remember being interviewed by someone who as a dept head was quite brazen that the successful person would have a number of contracts that could take them up to the 24th month as best the successful candidate could hope for. Though it was intimated in this time the successful person would have learnt enough to progress elsewhere. Current head made it clear they were not going anywhere and therefore there would be no progression in current firm.

I saw my own brother lose his job after over 10 plus years service to know just how easy it is to be rid of someone if you are so determined. All the time that company could have made a desk job but they chose to let a long termer go at no cost to them whatsoever.

Masomnia

The reason for your dismissal is redundancy, I suppose. You should probably have a conversation with your manager about what you will say when you apply for jobs as you will be asked the reason for leaving. The manager just means you won't be getting anything in terms of redundancy pay and won't be following any kind of process.

Good luck.