Job redeployment

Looking for some views ....


Have a situation where a section of company has been relocated abroad, and company is seeking to rotate affected staff into other areas of the company.

The affected staff are quite specialised, and are technical workers, company may try to place individuals into roles that are non-technical , and require extensive travel, as most of these people are settled with families, this may be an issue soon ......

Company has ruled out redundancy , as they say jobs are available, and the staff will be rotated ......

Re: Job rotation

Most contracts seem to state that the management hold the right to change the duties of the original role. Sounds to me like they are looking for a way to get people out without being hit with redundancies. I could be wrong though.

Re: Job rotation

Do payments for constructive dismissal tend to be more or less than redundancies? Moving someone to a position for which they are not suited, and changing the terms of employment significantly might well be grounds for constructive dismissal.

Re: Job rotation

Wasnt it Aer Lingus who had a plan to change different things in an employees job to make it so unbearable they would leave?

Re: Job rotation

Thanks for the reply lads,


Yeah, its a difficult one, some people would say thats Ireland 2006, and they are not losing a job, but the impact on their life, when "custom and practice" was they worked in Ireland, most were hired with this and mind, and now have to change career.

Only issue in contract relating to this is "Occasional Travel", nothing specific about changing roles.

Re: Job rotation

I think in this circumstance that 'Job Redeployment' is the term commonly used. 'Job Rotation' generally has a different meaning in Industrial Relations.

aj

Thanks for Confirmation Ajapale,


Will change title , was wondering if anybody had any ideas on employee rights on this, what is situation if redeployment process is unsuccessful.

Get feeling these jobs are not suitable, may have problems soon.