Redundancy Process ?
Discussion
At the company I work they have said there will be redundancies and that all the staff in the department are "at risk", the department spans various global regions, I am only concerned about UK staff as employment law differs markedly around the globe.
They issued a new structure chart which had boxes with the new roles they had created on, however a number of the boxes were already populated with names, so I am guessing that the folk named are not at risk and those specific jobs are not available to be applied for.
To be honest, I am not all that bothered as I think one way or another I should be ok, however there are a lot of worried people and it seems to have caused some resentment that certain people have been named for roles before others had a chance to apply, even if the role was earmarked for someone, and the actual result was the same it seems quite indelicate to do it that way.
Are they doing anything wrong there ?
They issued a new structure chart which had boxes with the new roles they had created on, however a number of the boxes were already populated with names, so I am guessing that the folk named are not at risk and those specific jobs are not available to be applied for.
To be honest, I am not all that bothered as I think one way or another I should be ok, however there are a lot of worried people and it seems to have caused some resentment that certain people have been named for roles before others had a chance to apply, even if the role was earmarked for someone, and the actual result was the same it seems quite indelicate to do it that way.
Are they doing anything wrong there ?
softtop said:
this is common and will have been done because no system is fair, those running the show know who they want in key positions and the rest can go through the charade of potentially being kept. Make no mistake there is no deciding going on, those wanted in a role will be kept and the others may go into a pool. There may still be new roles and you could still get one. I went through this three times (formally put at risk) in eight years with one company and the other years I had the nod that the position was safe and so not put at risk though others in the team had their names on 'the list.'
The very first time I was ever made redundant I was mortally offended, now I see it as the game that is played as organisations change their shape. It has little stigma now so you should potentially see it as another opportunity to view the job market with fresh eyes.
Yeah, no easy way to do it and it is an unenviable task, from what I can see they aren't looking to lose huge numbers, as far as I can tell, I am ok, I made a few noises about an external role and got told to not worry about having a role, it was just down to which one, I am not getting complacent and am treating it seriously but they know I have portable skills and could get something pretty quickly, plus they have loads of work needing doing, I just wanted to find out whether the process was correct.The very first time I was ever made redundant I was mortally offended, now I see it as the game that is played as organisations change their shape. It has little stigma now so you should potentially see it as another opportunity to view the job market with fresh eyes.
Dont want to go into which company, but no it doesn't have a red/yellow logo.
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