Contractors still doing my job after redundancy

eth0_ · 2006-10-26 13:35:12

I was perusing an I.T. agency's website today and came across a case study done on the company I (and 90% of my department) was made redundant from in December last year. They are using contractors to do our jobs that were supposedly made "redundant". iirc the law states that the position must remain redundant for at least…

26-10-2006 02:35PM

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I was perusing an I.T. agency's website today and came across a case study done on the company I (and 90% of my department) was made redundant from in December last year.

They are using contractors to do our jobs that were supposedly made "redundant".

iirc the law states that the position must remain redundant for at least 6 months after a person is made redundant...is there a loophole if you use contractors?

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#2 26-10-2006 08:06PM

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It could be argued that contractors don't consitute full-time employees (another reason agencies are very keen to deal with contractors as Ltd. companies).

Additionally, unless you were doing a very specific and defined role, the company can easily argue the the role 'changed' and required different responsibilites.

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