Being made redundant and training other people to do my job

ferry

I will be brief as I have my 1st consultation meeting shortly..
I have been put on redundancy notice and have been told my role and workload will be redistributed to a department that does not normally do my type of work.
Can I realistically be asked to train the people that will be doing my role after I have left?

Thanks 

housebuyer143

ferry said:

I will be brief as I have my 1st consultation meeting shortly..
I have been put on redundancy notice and have been told my role and workload will be redistributed to a department that does not normally do my type of work.
Can I realistically be asked to train the people that will be doing my role after I have left?

Thanks 

Yes of course you can. While you are still employed you can be asked to do your normal job or other duties within the scope of your job and that I imagine involves training. I'm sure it's a kick in the teeth for you though. 

If you wanted to leave and receive no pay, they will probably consider it and you don't need to train others then. 

Marcon

ferry said:

I will be brief as I have my 1st consultation meeting shortly..
I have been put on redundancy notice and have been told my role and workload will be redistributed to a department that does not normally do my type of work.
Can I realistically be asked to train the people that will be doing my role after I have left?

Thanks 

That's what normally happens.

coffeehound

If you felt like making them regret their decision, it would be an unfortunate time to come down with chronic back pain

Joking, but that is what they deserve

Veteransaver

You can. But it doesn't mean you have to train them very well!

ferry

Great stuff thanks

Wyndham

Legally, with redundancy, the role is redundant, not the person. You could argue that if you are training people then the role still exists...

Slightly flippant - more seriously, I've been through this and it's a horrible thing. I hope it's not too bad for you.

TELLIT01

Wyndham said:

Legally, with redundancy, the role is redundant, not the person. You could argue that if you are training people then the role still exists...

Slightly flippant - more seriously, I've been through this and it's a horrible thing. I hope it's not too bad for you.

You can try to argue anything you like but if a role is being removed and the work distributed amongst other people that is true redundancy.   I went through redundancy 4 times.  On three of those the company was restructuring and relocating and I had no wish to move.  On the 4th I was happy to get out anyway.  Where it did go sour was when one of the people taking on my work started moaning to me about the extra workload.  As I couldn't stand that individual I really laid into them in a large open plan office. I was losing my job and they were complaining about keeping theirs etc. They ended up in tears which made my day.

Marcon

coffeehound said:

If you felt like making them regret their decision, it would be an unfortunate time to come down with chronic back pain

Joking, but that is what they deserve

Why? Employers need to run a business efficiently or they tend to run out of cash; fail; and then everyone is out of a job.

OrbitHeadache

Marcon said:

coffeehound said:

If you felt like making them regret their decision, it would be an unfortunate time to come down with chronic back pain

Joking, but that is what they deserve

Why? Employers need to run a business efficiently or they tend to run out of cash; fail; and then everyone is out of a job.

That is really not the problem of the person who is about to be made redundant

Asking the person who is about to be laid off to train others in his job smacks of poor management.

Why would he care enough to train colleagues properly?

He might as well phone in sick and let someone else worry about this stuff

Hoenir

OrbitHeadache said:

Marcon said:

coffeehound said:

If you felt like making them regret their decision, it would be an unfortunate time to come down with chronic back pain

Joking, but that is what they deserve

Why? Employers need to run a business efficiently or they tend to run out of cash; fail; and then everyone is out of a job.

That is really not the problem of the person who is about to be made redundant

Asking the person who is about to be laid off to train others in his job smacks of poor management.

Why would he care enough to train colleagues properly?

He might as well phone in sick and let someone else worry about this stuff

During years of employment can indeed be a small world. You'll never know when you might cross paths again with somebody else.  Nor is it unknown for people to subsequently rejoin the employer at a later date. Reputations can easily be made or lost.