Nepotism and Employment Law
Discussion
What are collective thoughts on the below please:
- there's a team of three people: Manager X and his two staff
- Employee A is team leader (through quals/experience) but hands in notice
- Employee C is recruited (job advertised)
- Employee B is promoted to Junior Manager (job not advertised) in order to manage C
- the team is now two managers and a newbie
Employee B is the son of the COO, who manages Manager X.
What do you make of it?
So B has more experience of the company and the work, and new recruit C has a job where they didn't before?
If it's proper nepotism then C will up & leave before long; OTOH B might be good at their job.
If you knew your son/daughter was good at a job and you needed that job doing would you look any further?
ETA just seen your response and assume you're C. Time to start jobhunting again and leave them to wreck their own business.
If it's proper nepotism then C will up & leave before long; OTOH B might be good at their job.
If you knew your son/daughter was good at a job and you needed that job doing would you look any further?
ETA just seen your response and assume you're C. Time to start jobhunting again and leave them to wreck their own business.
fvey said:
No way, the son is f
king useless.
2 managers in a 3-man team - seriously?
If the son is genuinely fking useless.2 managers in a 3-man team - seriously?
king useless the person it will impact on the most is the Owner so it will be Karma and Employee A can take solace in this.OTOH the son may not be as bad as Employee A thinks, in which case the company will be better off because they no longer have to deal with A's resentment.
edc said:
Based on what you have written it is hard to see what employment laws or regulations have been broken.
so maybe not thenfrom the way C tells it, he pointed out he was managing the son and asked for it to change
they didn't change it, so he left
the next week, the bosses son gets C's job, is given a pay hike and a fancy pants manager job title!
If it smells like nepotism and looks like nepotism...
fvey said:
no its not - but funny how the only promotion in the biz for the last year has been the bosses son!!
Such is the way things go. I know someone working for a family business who has been there 20 odd years, he STILL thinks that one day the reins will be handed to him. I have told him the son will get it..........I recently left due to nepotism.
I stuck it out for 2 years, trying to train the bosses son to basically do my job. Unfortunately, having left school with what I can only assume as little-to-no qualifications and having no idea how to work a computer my efforts were futile. It was like trying to fill a sieve with water - information just wasn't going in.
So I left.
Old contacts and companies love a good story of nepotism, I have learned. Some will no longer deal with my former employers company out of principle - not something I had any intention of doing, but nice all the same!
Nepotism is rife in all industries, and there is nothing illegal about it.
I stuck it out for 2 years, trying to train the bosses son to basically do my job. Unfortunately, having left school with what I can only assume as little-to-no qualifications and having no idea how to work a computer my efforts were futile. It was like trying to fill a sieve with water - information just wasn't going in.
So I left.
Old contacts and companies love a good story of nepotism, I have learned. Some will no longer deal with my former employers company out of principle - not something I had any intention of doing, but nice all the same!
Nepotism is rife in all industries, and there is nothing illegal about it.
From the other side.....
I started at my dad's business when I was 23 and had little else better to do (I was employed though).
Two things:
1. If you're dad is the business owner and you're the new boy then the pressure on you to do well is immense, both from every other member of staff and your dad. If you do badly then it's dad that will come hardest down on you. He will not want to lose faith from either the staff or customers.
2. Sometimes,as in my case,the relationship between the son and the father is priceless. The way they can communicate about every little bit of the business without any normal working 'constraints' can mean the son really can have a greater insight than anyone else.
Of course if the son turns out to be st and the dad can't see that....
I started at my dad's business when I was 23 and had little else better to do (I was employed though).
Two things:
1. If you're dad is the business owner and you're the new boy then the pressure on you to do well is immense, both from every other member of staff and your dad. If you do badly then it's dad that will come hardest down on you. He will not want to lose faith from either the staff or customers.
2. Sometimes,as in my case,the relationship between the son and the father is priceless. The way they can communicate about every little bit of the business without any normal working 'constraints' can mean the son really can have a greater insight than anyone else.
Of course if the son turns out to be s
t and the dad can't see that....It doesn't sound like they have broken any laws, they are free to run their business how they see fit and there are several reasons why you would want an internal candidate over an external candidate, also depending on the job having one supervisor per employee might be pretty normal.
If the son is as bad as you say then person C might be well advised to take out private redundancy insurance.
If the son is as bad as you say then person C might be well advised to take out private redundancy insurance.
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