Secondment employment law

bobblebob

Asking here as dont want to involve HR incase my current department find out and i burn bridges

So ive been successful in getting an internal secondment for 12 month - more pay too. New department want me to start asap naturally, current department while happy to agree the secondment naturally want to keep me.

They have said they will release me to the new department, providing i come back to substantive position during a busy period of a few week later in the year.

Is this legally allowed? I dont mind helping where i can, but trying to learn a new job then go back to my old one could be abit much

DullGreyGuy

Why wouldn't it be allowed? Ultimately the two departments have to agree to what the offer is and you then decide if you want to accept it or not. 

bobblebob

DullGreyGuy said:

Why wouldn't it be allowed? Ultimately the two departments have to agree to what the offer is and you then decide if you want to accept it or not. 

Just seems abit odd. We have lots of secondments and never heard of this before. I know they have to negotiate a date to start, but never heard of someone coming back briefly to help out

Marcon

bobblebob said:

DullGreyGuy said:

Why wouldn't it be allowed? Ultimately the two departments have to agree to what the offer is and you then decide if you want to accept it or not. 

Just seems abit odd. We have lots of secondments and never heard of this before. I know they have to negotiate a date to start, but never heard of someone coming back briefly to help out

First time for everything - and makes a lot of sense from your employer's perspective.

bobblebob said:

They have said they will release me to the new department, providing i come back to substantive position during a busy period of a few week later in the year.

Is this legally allowed? I dont mind helping where i can, but trying to learn a new job then go back to my old one could be abit much

It's a couple of weeks. Why the big deal?

bobblebob

Marcon said:

bobblebob said:

DullGreyGuy said:

Why wouldn't it be allowed? Ultimately the two departments have to agree to what the offer is and you then decide if you want to accept it or not. 

Just seems abit odd. We have lots of secondments and never heard of this before. I know they have to negotiate a date to start, but never heard of someone coming back briefly to help out

First time for everything - and makes a lot of sense from your employer's perspective.

bobblebob said:

They have said they will release me to the new department, providing i come back to substantive position during a busy period of a few week later in the year.

Is this legally allowed? I dont mind helping where i can, but trying to learn a new job then go back to my old one could be abit much

It's a couple of weeks. Why the big deal?

Well mainly without going into the boring details, its an intense couple of weeks with huge workloads and deadline where everyone is usually exhausted at the end of it. Not the best situation to be in when your trying to learn a new job and impress your new department in the hope the job is made permanent 

DE_612183

your employment contract is with the employer not a department - usually they have a cover all clause "and any other duties as required"

LightFlare

bobblebob said:

DullGreyGuy said:

Why wouldn't it be allowed? Ultimately the two departments have to agree to what the offer is and you then decide if you want to accept it or not. 

Just seems abit odd. We have lots of secondments and never heard of this before. I know they have to negotiate a date to start, but never heard of someone coming back briefly to help out

happens all the time at my place of work. 

You just need to ensure that the expectations (from all directions) and clear -- as in how many weeks is a "few weeks" , will you continue to be paid at your secondment rate or not, who will be covering your other workload etc etc

Marcon

bobblebob said:

Marcon said:

bobblebob said:

DullGreyGuy said:

Why wouldn't it be allowed? Ultimately the two departments have to agree to what the offer is and you then decide if you want to accept it or not. 

Just seems abit odd. We have lots of secondments and never heard of this before. I know they have to negotiate a date to start, but never heard of someone coming back briefly to help out

First time for everything - and makes a lot of sense from your employer's perspective.

bobblebob said:

They have said they will release me to the new department, providing i come back to substantive position during a busy period of a few week later in the year.

Is this legally allowed? I dont mind helping where i can, but trying to learn a new job then go back to my old one could be abit much

It's a couple of weeks. Why the big deal?

Well mainly without going into the boring details, its an intense couple of weeks with huge workloads and deadline where everyone is usually exhausted at the end of it. Not the best situation to be in when your trying to learn a new job and impress your new department in the hope the job is made permanent 

Sounds pretty common.

So the problem can be foreseen and planned for. Make sure you have a couple of days of annual leave booked for immediately afterwards. 

EnPointe

bobblebob said:

DullGreyGuy said:

Why wouldn't it be allowed? Ultimately the two departments have to agree to what the offer is and you then decide if you want to accept it or not. 

Just seems abit odd. We have lots of secondments and never heard of this before. I know they have to negotiate a date to start, but never heard of someone coming back briefly to help out

while not related  directly to secondments 

 in a previous role i had supporting  a reailer;s online fulfillment operations ,  major product launches would see  staff who had moved  to different departments  or beein promoted into managmeent   or   higher graded admin roles return to the  department to  ' get us across the line' withthe launch , so it's not unheard of