Forced to take on a role...
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This maybe something I cannot do anything about but worth asking you people! I work for a large IT outsourcing company and I work on assignments/different contracts/customers (it is bit like a job within a job) and change assignments every 6-12 months. I'm in a flexible-pool as its known internally... its a rather loose term however. These roles are all over the country, sometimes home based, however my contractual base is Leeds and I live an hour away from the office.
My current 'assignment' was due to end this month, so I looked on the internal job board and applied for a role in London, as my partner has just moved down there, it would work out nicely. I had an interview and got the role/assignment.
A week later, I'm told that the assignment is to be Leeds based, rather than London. I turn the role down and say thanks but no thanks, annoyed but thought there are others down that way to apply for. However, internal resource management have told me I HAVE to accept the role and start next week!
Clearly I do not want to and stated that I was misled about the location and I even told the interviewer that I only wanted to be London based for personal reasons, which he said was fine.
Where do I stand with this? I am most definitely not paid for this level of role either (and even the one I'm in now) and there is no salary increase either. (I cannot even ask for London weighting, but thats a different issue).
Any thoughts?
My current 'assignment' was due to end this month, so I looked on the internal job board and applied for a role in London, as my partner has just moved down there, it would work out nicely. I had an interview and got the role/assignment.
A week later, I'm told that the assignment is to be Leeds based, rather than London. I turn the role down and say thanks but no thanks, annoyed but thought there are others down that way to apply for. However, internal resource management have told me I HAVE to accept the role and start next week!
Clearly I do not want to and stated that I was misled about the location and I even told the interviewer that I only wanted to be London based for personal reasons, which he said was fine.
Where do I stand with this? I am most definitely not paid for this level of role either (and even the one I'm in now) and there is no salary increase either. (I cannot even ask for London weighting, but thats a different issue).
Any thoughts?
It sounds like we might even work for the same company...
Im my experience in the flexible pool, you are pretty much forced kicking and screaming to take on the 1st assignment that comes up. Maybe speak to your line manager and see if they can help,
if it were me i would argue the point that the role isnt in keeping with the direction i want my career to go, and ask them to find something else.
Good luck getting it sorted out.
Im my experience in the flexible pool, you are pretty much forced kicking and screaming to take on the 1st assignment that comes up. Maybe speak to your line manager and see if they can help,
if it were me i would argue the point that the role isnt in keeping with the direction i want my career to go, and ask them to find something else.
Good luck getting it sorted out.
rescynic said:
It sounds like we might even work for the same company...
Im my experience in the flexible pool, you are pretty much forced kicking and screaming to take on the 1st assignment that comes up. Maybe speak to your line manager and see if they can help,
if it were me i would argue the point that the role isnt in keeping with the direction i want my career to go, and ask them to find something else.
Good luck getting it sorted out.
My line manager isn't helping! He's also telling me I have to go!Im my experience in the flexible pool, you are pretty much forced kicking and screaming to take on the 1st assignment that comes up. Maybe speak to your line manager and see if they can help,
if it were me i would argue the point that the role isnt in keeping with the direction i want my career to go, and ask them to find something else.
Good luck getting it sorted out.
Is this "new role" a completely different job, or does it fall within the remit of your current job - i.e. "the pool". It sounds very much like your job is to take on any assignment the company deems necessary, which presumably you signed a contract for. If so, the company can make you do anything they want, usually subject to your skills etc (check your contract). This isn't uncommon, but most companies don't invoke the clause as a matter of policy, but in general there's nothing you can do apart from look for a more reasonable employer. There is of course nothing to stop you from applying for a completely different job again.
However there may be something to this - if the task was advertised as a completely separate role (with a new contract), it's fair to argue that the company did not consider this to be within your remit. I suspect it all depends on whether they can argue that requirements have changed and it is no longer a new role but a "pool job". You could talk to a union, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
However there may be something to this - if the task was advertised as a completely separate role (with a new contract), it's fair to argue that the company did not consider this to be within your remit. I suspect it all depends on whether they can argue that requirements have changed and it is no longer a new role but a "pool job". You could talk to a union, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
bogwoppit said:
Is this "new role" a completely different job, or does it fall within the remit of your current job - i.e. "the pool". It sounds very much like your job is to take on any assignment the company deems necessary, which presumably you signed a contract for. If so, the company can make you do anything they want, usually subject to your skills etc (check your contract). This isn't uncommon, but most companies don't invoke the clause as a matter of policy, but in general there's nothing you can do apart from look for a more reasonable employer. There is of course nothing to stop you from applying for a completely different job again.
However there may be something to this - if the task was advertised as a completely separate role (with a new contract), it's fair to argue that the company did not consider this to be within your remit. I suspect it all depends on whether they can argue that requirements have changed and it is no longer a new role but a "pool job". You could talk to a union, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
This role is a new one, which is actually displacing a contractor (even though the contractor is in London)However there may be something to this - if the task was advertised as a completely separate role (with a new contract), it's fair to argue that the company did not consider this to be within your remit. I suspect it all depends on whether they can argue that requirements have changed and it is no longer a new role but a "pool job". You could talk to a union, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
I need to dig out my contract and read what the deal is.
My only option is to leave I think.
In the face of unreasonable bulls
t like this you're going to have to lie.
Pick a trauma and stick with it. You need to be in London because... Parent, brother, sister, girlfriend whatever... It'll either work or it won't but if you're on the verge of leaving anyway what does it matter?
Then start looking for another job.
t like this you're going to have to lie.Pick a trauma and stick with it. You need to be in London because... Parent, brother, sister, girlfriend whatever... It'll either work or it won't but if you're on the verge of leaving anyway what does it matter?
Then start looking for another job.
Rich_AR said:
bogwoppit said:
Is this "new role" a completely different job, or does it fall within the remit of your current job - i.e. "the pool". It sounds very much like your job is to take on any assignment the company deems necessary, which presumably you signed a contract for. If so, the company can make you do anything they want, usually subject to your skills etc (check your contract). This isn't uncommon, but most companies don't invoke the clause as a matter of policy, but in general there's nothing you can do apart from look for a more reasonable employer. There is of course nothing to stop you from applying for a completely different job again.
However there may be something to this - if the task was advertised as a completely separate role (with a new contract), it's fair to argue that the company did not consider this to be within your remit. I suspect it all depends on whether they can argue that requirements have changed and it is no longer a new role but a "pool job". You could talk to a union, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
This role is a new one, which is actually displacing a contractor (even though the contractor is in London)However there may be something to this - if the task was advertised as a completely separate role (with a new contract), it's fair to argue that the company did not consider this to be within your remit. I suspect it all depends on whether they can argue that requirements have changed and it is no longer a new role but a "pool job". You could talk to a union, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.
I need to dig out my contract and read what the deal is.
My only option is to leave I think.
Hope you find a way around it.
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