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GilGrissom

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Spocker

More information here and here.

You don't qualify for a redundancy payment if you have less than 2 years service or you are being offered suitable alternative work.

If needs be give the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment a ring if you feel you are being short-changed - they look rather dimly on that sort of stuff...

BuffyBot

If we refuse to apply for these jobs do we make ourselves redundant and force them to pay out?

No. Life isn't quite that easy.

If you're being offered alternative roles within the company on a roughly equivalent basis to the one you're doing now (and "admin" to "phone jockey" would probably be considered equivalent enough as I doubt there would be a huge differential in terms of workload/ability needed).

I'd also check your contract, and see does what it says about your title, and what work the company can expect you to do. Many call-centre contracts tend to have a "we can determine what work you do, where you do it" type clause in it - i.e. allowing them to shuffle you off to a different department if they so feel like it.

Chardee MacDennis

ye but they are being offered to apply, so their job is gone. in effect i can apply for these jobs too.

GilGrissom

Yes, anyone could apply for those jobs. Infact no one in my dept is remotely qualified for the positions.