Re Transfer within an organisation.

lenny1020

Is it legal to be told that a person is being transferred to another department within a company without consultation of any type.Thanks

Boskowski

Yes

CIARAN_BOYLE

Look at your contract

bren2002

Usually is. Pawns / Worker Bees / Resources to be moved around at will.

coylemj

Clearly you don't work in the public sector or in a unionised industry.

If your employer was obliged to 'consult' you it would imply that you had the right to refuse the transfer. Given that most employers don't recognise this right (as long as the basic terms and conditions of your employment are not altered), I can see why they would not engage in any kind of consultation prior to transferring an employee.

Boskowski

bren2002 wrote: »

Usually is. Pawns / Worker Bees / Resources to be moved around at will.

Well in fairness employment is usually about someone paying someone else to do stuff that needs to be done.
So if the workload changes and not enough stuff needs to be done surely an employer should be allowed to move people to another place where stuff still needs to be done?
Within reason of course I understand you can't expect an accountant to mop the floors next week but you know what I mean.

Peregrinus

Transferred to another department? Usually no problem.

Transferred to a signficantly different job/role from the one you were hired for? That could be a problem (regardless of whether the transfer involves a change of department or not).