Please bear with me! Am in a managerial role currently recruiting for autonomous public service body (education non-teaching post). A full time post is 32 hours pw.
At the moment my place of work has the following posts in order of seniority:
Post A: 26.5 Hours (reduced from 32 in 2008)
Post B: 16 Hours (reduced from 32 in 2011)
Post C: 12.5 Hours (reduced from 26 in 2010)
All workers were paid partial redundancy upon losing hours.
We have now 26 new hours, and really need a fourth person. So have followed public procedure and advertised publicly, for 1 -26 hour post as per Department of Education and Skills guidelines.
The Union representing B+C above are adamant that new hours should have been divided among existing staff based on seniority, or at least job should just have been advertised internally only, especially as they previously lost hours. I can't find precedence for this
DES have given different advice (Though none in writing!) basically saying that job must be advertised as over 26 weeks duration, no one in public service has automatic right and seniority only counts in this position in event of redundancy.
There is no reference to automatic rights of extra hours in contract.
Questions: Have I done the right thing in advertising? Does an employee have automatic rights to newly available hours based on historic redundancies/
Thanks is advance.
At the moment my place of work has the following posts in order of seniority:
Post A: 26.5 Hours (reduced from 32 in 2008)
Post B: 16 Hours (reduced from 32 in 2011)
Post C: 12.5 Hours (reduced from 26 in 2010)
All workers were paid partial redundancy upon losing hours.
We have now 26 new hours, and really need a fourth person. So have followed public procedure and advertised publicly, for 1 -26 hour post as per Department of Education and Skills guidelines.
The Union representing B+C above are adamant that new hours should have been divided among existing staff based on seniority, or at least job should just have been advertised internally only, especially as they previously lost hours. I can't find precedence for this
DES have given different advice (Though none in writing!) basically saying that job must be advertised as over 26 weeks duration, no one in public service has automatic right and seniority only counts in this position in event of redundancy.
There is no reference to automatic rights of extra hours in contract.
Questions: Have I done the right thing in advertising? Does an employee have automatic rights to newly available hours based on historic redundancies/
Thanks is advance.