Long story short:
Our team is going through a restructure that was announced in February. It's part of a larger one within the business.
We were offered the chance of applying for our revised roles - 6 of them available, or taking one with less responsibility for about 10% less money - 6 of them too. It says a lot that out of 14 of us, only 3 decided to stay, all in the lower paid role.
When we handed in our decisions on staying/going on paper, I believe that 9 of us out of 11 added comments to the effect of 'the offered roles are not workable for me due to the new proposed roster, and the inflexible holiday situation it creates.'
Effectively, the new roster was a steaming pile of shit and taking holiday meant always having to get your colleagues to cover your absence. Our feelings on this were made very clear to management during the consultation process throughout March. I was a 'consultation rep' for our team alongside another guy, and we even put in alternative suggestions that were rejected.
That brings us to this week. We had all made our minds up, and were set to leave. Now, we've been advised that the shit roster will not be in place when the new team start next month, but a much better revised one. This should have been given to us originally back when announced but the planning team ****ed up and it was never questioned or double checked at any point.
Management have admitted fault, but there's no apology on emails at all about the situation. We can now re-apply again for the roles if we have changed our minds though :jerkit:
This has not only thrown a lot of people, but the real issue is that there is now only 1 guaranteed lesser role left in place as 2 other people were recruited externally. I contacted the solicitor that was available to us when we going through all this, and his words were: 'What a mess! Effectively if anyone applies and now isn't given a role, they have a very good case for unfair dismissal. If that's a road anyone is looking at going down, I would suggest negotiating in house for extra money before you leave.'
Looking online, it seems that the company are at fault because they quite clearly didn't follow their own procedures that they made clear to us back in February.
Has anyone else ever had something experience of something like this? How much money can I get out of it?! :D
Our team is going through a restructure that was announced in February. It's part of a larger one within the business.
We were offered the chance of applying for our revised roles - 6 of them available, or taking one with less responsibility for about 10% less money - 6 of them too. It says a lot that out of 14 of us, only 3 decided to stay, all in the lower paid role.
When we handed in our decisions on staying/going on paper, I believe that 9 of us out of 11 added comments to the effect of 'the offered roles are not workable for me due to the new proposed roster, and the inflexible holiday situation it creates.'
Effectively, the new roster was a steaming pile of shit and taking holiday meant always having to get your colleagues to cover your absence. Our feelings on this were made very clear to management during the consultation process throughout March. I was a 'consultation rep' for our team alongside another guy, and we even put in alternative suggestions that were rejected.
That brings us to this week. We had all made our minds up, and were set to leave. Now, we've been advised that the shit roster will not be in place when the new team start next month, but a much better revised one. This should have been given to us originally back when announced but the planning team ****ed up and it was never questioned or double checked at any point.
Management have admitted fault, but there's no apology on emails at all about the situation. We can now re-apply again for the roles if we have changed our minds though :jerkit:
This has not only thrown a lot of people, but the real issue is that there is now only 1 guaranteed lesser role left in place as 2 other people were recruited externally. I contacted the solicitor that was available to us when we going through all this, and his words were: 'What a mess! Effectively if anyone applies and now isn't given a role, they have a very good case for unfair dismissal. If that's a road anyone is looking at going down, I would suggest negotiating in house for extra money before you leave.'
Looking online, it seems that the company are at fault because they quite clearly didn't follow their own procedures that they made clear to us back in February.
Has anyone else ever had something experience of something like this? How much money can I get out of it?! :D
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