Is this the normal process?
Discussion
I work for a large multinational company.
Today I received a meeting invite for a teams meeting from a Director of HR in America with 2 of my colleagues and I, one of the colleagues is my manager. This meeting invite was sent with only 30 minutes notice of the meeting.
We collectively got told that the business planned to restructure and as part of the restructuring we needed to apply for one of the 14 roles are that will be available. We got told we had to make that decision by the end of the week. We then got told that we could also volunteer for redundancy or the company who they plan to use to do our jobs might want to TUPE us. Basically very confusing.
I’m still in some shock but did not understand why the HR person decided to do a joint meeting as I did not think that was professional or allowed? I thought it was a one to one meeting to discuss this rather than collecting people together in a Teams meeting with less than 30 minutes notice?
Also we got told that after the meeting we would receive an email with a letter, the email was the letter with the list of roles,
The roles had no job descriptions and no idea who we would be reporting to and 4 roles had no locations set but other roles had EMEA or NA or India, which I suspect means we have only a few of the roles available to us to select but this was not made clear.
Sorry I know this is a little long winded and rambling but genuinely I’m still trying to get my head round it, background I’ve been with the company for 9 years, 10 in December this year and have always had a good working relationship and reviews have always been fine.
Company is trying to save money and sounds like they plan to outsource some of the jobs and keep some staff in house.
I have a feeling I need to speak with Acas but wanted to get other opinions and any recommendations on what to do next?
Today I received a meeting invite for a teams meeting from a Director of HR in America with 2 of my colleagues and I, one of the colleagues is my manager. This meeting invite was sent with only 30 minutes notice of the meeting.
We collectively got told that the business planned to restructure and as part of the restructuring we needed to apply for one of the 14 roles are that will be available. We got told we had to make that decision by the end of the week. We then got told that we could also volunteer for redundancy or the company who they plan to use to do our jobs might want to TUPE us. Basically very confusing.
I’m still in some shock but did not understand why the HR person decided to do a joint meeting as I did not think that was professional or allowed? I thought it was a one to one meeting to discuss this rather than collecting people together in a Teams meeting with less than 30 minutes notice?
Also we got told that after the meeting we would receive an email with a letter, the email was the letter with the list of roles,
The roles had no job descriptions and no idea who we would be reporting to and 4 roles had no locations set but other roles had EMEA or NA or India, which I suspect means we have only a few of the roles available to us to select but this was not made clear.
Sorry I know this is a little long winded and rambling but genuinely I’m still trying to get my head round it, background I’ve been with the company for 9 years, 10 in December this year and have always had a good working relationship and reviews have always been fine.
Company is trying to save money and sounds like they plan to outsource some of the jobs and keep some staff in house.
I have a feeling I need to speak with Acas but wanted to get other opinions and any recommendations on what to do next?
From (two) experiences, Group consultation is usually the first step. In a physical office presence it's not uncommon for the COO to address the 'floor' to make the initial announcement. There may also be a follow up one a couple of weeks later
There are very strict processes that should be followed which vary depending on company size etc. Hopefully people here who are far more qualified than me to assist
There are very strict processes that should be followed which vary depending on company size etc. Hopefully people here who are far more qualified than me to assist
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