My other half is going through this at the moment, and from reading some of the comments about the process I'm not sure it's being done properly, would someone be kind enough to clarify?

> You make position redundant, not the person? So that would mean that role is no longer required? So you couldn't make someone redundant and then share their role out?
> Is it fair and legal that the person who has the final decision of who is being made redundant is very close to the group one of which is going to be made redundant from? (To make it simpler it's a team of 5 and 1 has to go and it's the direct manager making the decision) further to this, one of of those five is the managers son; is it correct that the manager should make this decision under these circumstances?

From what I understood from my own circumstances its the position not the person. I was a full time credit controller during a busy time for a company. Business for whatever reason, slacked off(I know this to be genuine, I worked in the accounts department!) and I was told the role of credit controller was being made redundant and if and when customers needed to be called then the other two accounts assistants would be able to fit it in with their roles. I was on the understanding they couldn't employ another full time credit controller for at least 6 months. Has it happened the company went under not long after I was made redundant so they never did hire another one.

Mostly correct, the position (job) is made redundant but usually this means that the workload is shared out elsewhere, as an example a friend of mine was at a senior grade in a civil service department until last April when a decision was made to make that grade redundant across the whole country and off he went with a settlement. His job function is still being performed by others (out-sourced and in-house) but that grade of management does not now exist.





I don't think that sounds fair at all, either on the employees or the manager and if I were the manager I'd be asking to be relinquished from this duty to protect the company against a possible claim, whether its legal or not I don't know.

My wife has worked in the NHS for 40 years and is retiring this year. Last year the trust North East Lincs asked everyone if they wanted redundancy, early retirement, or a job with less hours, to save the trust millions in the future. Guess what one person got the redudancy. HR woman who sent out the letters. I was mad but the wife is just glad to get out of the madhouse which the Nhs is becoming.

When I worked for 1 of the banks, they once asked about 500 to a hotel up the road, everyone wandered down there clueless, as you walked in, there where tables with your name on, room A or room B.

When in the room the HR manager came in and said either "You will be pleased to know you have kept your job" or "You will be sad to know you are being made redundant."

When I took VR the manager was almost in tears having to even talk about it, I put my hand on his shoulder and said "You will be making my year if your make me redundant from this God damn awful industry, think of it as a good thing."