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[Closed] Employment law question (redundancy)

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 DezB
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Does this sound dodgy or what?
My company just made a bunch of people (er, sorry, "positions") redundant and now they are bringing in a contractor to do exactly what a couple of the redundant folk were doing.
Could they have any come-back on this?


 
Posted : 08/06/2010 7:48 am
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If they are replacing two permanent positions with one temp contractor then I wouldn't have thought so.


 
Posted : 08/06/2010 7:58 am
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As long as the correct procedure was followed then no, they are fine.

Collegue of mine was recently made redundant, he worked for a German company.. The first meeting he had, the president said "You are not German, therefore we are making you redundant as it costs more to make a German redundant" ! Oops... £50k payout 😉


 
Posted : 08/06/2010 8:01 am
 DezB
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[i]If they are replacing two permanent positions with one temp contractor then I wouldn't have thought so.[/i]

Good point.


 
Posted : 08/06/2010 8:09 am