Redundancy, re-apply for job? employment advice needed. UK?

hi





i have been informed that the postion i hold at work, is part of a restructuring in our department, and that as part of restructure, i am having to re-apply for my own job. as far as im aware, the job description, job name, and pay scale have not changed, just the position has changed in the restructure (lower management).





I have been told that redundancy is an option (if i so wish), but the position is not being made redundant. And i cannot work out why im being told to re-apply for the position?





Obvioulsy this is a highly stressful situation for myself, and im not sure what to do next. I have been told to get some advice, and will be calling ACAS monday, but cannot afford to get proper legal advice, and was hoping to get help on here.





Thanks in advanceRedundancy, re-apply for job? employment advice needed. UK?
How much information do you have about the new structure? How likely is it that you will get the job?





The reason I ask is this ... I work for a large corporation that is very fond of having restructures on a regular basis. They really do give first priority for those jobs to the people who have been kicked out of their old jobs, so people are usually safe. However, there's got to be some point to the restructure, right? Surely they must be planning on making some kind of cutbacks or something. So my advice would be to do as much research around this as you possibly can, to find out whether you are really in jeopardy of not getting your job back. Talk to everyone - official channels (your manager, HR) and unofficial ones (the office gossip, the girl who's shagging the boss) - and find out all the different versions of what's going on.





Now, redundancy *cannot* be an option if your post is not actually being made redundant. In order to make someone redundant, then they need to eliminate the position and they can't employ anyone else into it for at least six months. Therefore is they've told you that redundancy is an option ... well, you're in a very strong position to negotiate. It would be essentially paying you off to leave, so if you did want to go, you may be able to negotiate a good deal for yourself far over and above statutory redundancy pay.





Definitely talk to ACAS, and the other thing to remember is that with employment law, almost all the information you need is online anyway. The BERR site is great and usually you can just google and find the appropriate Acts that you need, and even though they're long, they're not really hard to read once you get into them.Redundancy, re-apply for job? employment advice needed. UK?
Yeah that means you should take the redundancy money and look elsewhere
Hi I have just been through the same thing in the NHS and I really feel for you. ACAS are okay but you will find the advice differs depending on who you speak to, I was not overly impressed with them, I got on better with UNISON with whom I was a member. I can only assume from what you've said that the structure has changed and therefore there will be more than 1 person applying for your job, mine too had the same title, same money, same JD, they just trebled my workload!!!! What should happen is you will all be interviewed for the available posts and the successful candidate informed, unsuccessful may be offfered alternative employment in the company if this is an option, the job has to be either the same salary of 1 band lower and the same type of work. I would only consider redundancy if it is in your interests financially. It's a horrible situation to be in as I didn;t actually want the new job as I knew it was unmanagable but if you turn it down you are job less as they are not obliged to offer another job or pay you redundancy