a Question of employment

50Twuncle

My employer spent the summer trying to reduce costs by getting rid of one employee (this was done using a redundancy threat on all of us) - the person who left, was earning £45k and left "of his own accord" ie NOT redundant
My employer has now, decided to increase costs again - by promoting one of the former staff of the person who left to the same (or similar) post of the person who left...
In the meantime - I have spent the last 7 years, asking for 6 more hours on top of the 10 hours that I work on little more than minimum pay - to allow me to claim Disabled WTC and have been refused, time after time on grounds of finance !
Any comments ?

spadoosh

Your employer sees better value for money in giving more work to the other employee.

50Twuncle

spadoosh wrote: »

Your employer sees better value for money in giving more work to the other employee.

But surely - they are not allowed to try redundancy - then 3 months later offer a similar post again - even though the original post holder left of his own accord ?
This shows poor management skills and even worse financial skills

spadoosh

50Twuncle wrote: »

But surely - they are not allowed to try redundancy - then 3 months later offer a similar post again - even though the original post holder left of his own accord ?
This shows poor management skills and even worse financial skills

They can do what they want, the 'redundant' employee left of their own accord.

It probably is poor management and financial skills, problem you have is theyre not accountable to you.

Comms69

50Twuncle wrote: »

But surely - they are not allowed to try redundancy - then 3 months later offer a similar post again - even though the original post holder left of his own accord ?
This shows poor management skills and even worse financial skills

It's their business. And the person who left has no real recourse now.

Undervalued

50Twuncle wrote: »

But surely - they are not allowed to try redundancy - then 3 months later offer a similar post again - even though the original post holder left of his own accord ?
This shows poor management skills and even worse financial skills

Yes they are because the employee left of his own accord.

Even if he had been made redundant it would be fairly easy for the firm to get round this by saying there was an unexpected change in workload etc.

In any case, any claim would have had to be brought by the redundant employee (if there had been one)! He might have had a case but it wouldn't be easy to prove.