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Company downsizing - Less staff positions

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  • 27-09-2012 10:06pm
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    another question
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    Hi,

    Wondering can anyone shed some light on the above. There is a company who will be moving from a store space to a space in a department store and thus the staff positions will go from 20 to 8. How will the company go about this....will they offer everyone redundancy and allow people to reapply for the available positions or will they just move the manager and full-time staff over and get rid of all the last-inners?

    I would also like to know if the manager is gauranteed a transfer no questions asked?


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    CIARAN_BOYLE
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    another question wrote: »
    Hi,

    Wondering can anyone shed some light on the above. There is a company who will be moving from a store space to a space in a department store and thus the staff positions will go from 20 to 8. How will the company go about this....will they offer everyone redundancy and allow people to reapply for the available positions or will they just move the manager and full-time staff over and get rid of all the last-inners?

    I would also like to know if the manager is gauranteed a transfer no questions asked?
    nothing guaranteed at all, its up to the company, the company can offer anyone that they choose redundancy


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    Milk & Honey
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    CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »
    nothing guaranteed at all, its up to the company, the company can offer anyone that they choose redundancy

    The process has to be fair and transparent or they could face claims for unfair selection for redundancy.


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    seamus
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    another question wrote: »
    Wondering can anyone shed some light on the above. There is a company who will be moving from a store space to a space in a department store and thus the staff positions will go from 20 to 8. How will the company go about this....will they offer everyone redundancy and allow people to reapply for the available positions or will they just move the manager and full-time staff over and get rid of all the last-inners?

    I would also like to know if the manager is gauranteed a transfer no questions asked?
    The company will probably offer voluntary redundancy to everyone and if 12 people don't accept it, then they will trim the numbers down manually.

    You can't fire and rehire the staff, however they could bring everyone in for an interview and then make their redundancy decisions on that basis.


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    Marcusm
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    Everyone put on notice of respective redundancy together with information as to future position availability - consultations as to future appointments and/or interviewing for he future roles. This woud be quite usual to ensure a fair process. However, if the change involved a clear elimination of particular posts - eg no stock room posts as that function provided in house by department store as part of concession arrangement- the position might be clearer.


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