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Redundancy selection query

nibtrix · 2012-01-20 14:31:51

I need to speak in rather general terms here so I hope it is understandable... I work for a management services company which does not have an office, instead people are employed on various contracts at different client companies. One of the client companies has decided to move half of the work done by my services company…

20-01-2012 2:31pm

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I need to speak in rather general terms here so I hope it is understandable...

I work for a management services company which does not have an office, instead people are employed on various contracts at different client companies. One of the client companies has decided to move half of the work done by my services company to an overseas location, therefore half of the people working on this client are going to be made redundant (5 of 11).

There are 2 additional people working for our client company but in a different location and they are exempt from the redundancy selection. No one could have a problem with this as they do a different job from us.

Obviously this isn't a fun situation for anyone, but our company have been reasonably decent about the situation, quite good with communicating the selection criteria etc. None of the 11 people are guaranteed their jobs, everyone is basically competing for the 6 remaining jobs.

A couple of weeks ago we found out that our company had lost another contract with a different client, and that the two people working on that contract would also be made redundant. Rumours started flying that 1 of them (who had previously worked on our contract but had left 2 years previously) would be included in the selection pool for the 6 remaining jobs at our client company.

During my official HR meeting (where I was put officially At Risk Of Redundancy) I asked for confirmation of who was in the pool for selection, specifically asking about the 2 people in the other location, but not the person from the other client company (as it was just a rumour at that stage). It was confirmed by my manager, in the presence of the big HR honcho from the UK that "only the people in this building were in the pool for selection, the other 2 people were in a different cost centre and were not included".

Today we have found out that the guy from the other client company has been included in the selection for the 6 remaining jobs. Obviously, having been told that it was only the people in our building we are fairly angry. Does anyone have any opinions on whether the company can or can't do this? Is it worth while getting legal advice or would people think that there is nothing we can do as we have nothing in writing to confirm that it is only the 11 of us in this building that are in the selection pool?

Apologies for the long post!

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