Redundancy advice please.

[byteagig]

My son has been informed that he has been selected for redundancy.

Our employer has used a points system to select employees using several criteria including

Disiplinary record

Length of service

Job knowledge

Efficiency

Skill level.

The last three criteria have been scored using the personal opinions of two shift managers, and then checked and approved by their manager. My son works under one of the shift managers and the other one doesn't know him well at all having never worked with him for any length of time as he is on a totally different shift.

They have scored him very low on the last three criteria making him one of the lowest scores and therefore one of the selected few for redundancy. I work with my son and know without any doubt that he does a good job and everyone else on our shift agrees including team leaders.

A few weeks ago he had his annual employee appraisal which was very positive. He has never been in any trouble and he has 100% attendance since he started over 3 years ago.

Is the selection process that they have used a fair and proper way to do it? I believe that they have deliberately scored him low to get rid of him. I believe that the system they have used is open to abuse and manipulation because they have used personal opinions and not measurable criteria.

Has anyone got any advice or been in a similar situation?

 

[byteagig]

I have no experience with the redundancy process, but I thought there was rules they have to follow to make it fair for everyone?

 

[byteagig]

Thanks for the reply. He hasn't had any opportunities to improve simply because he hasn't had any negative feedback about his performance. On his appraisal a few weeks ago he got a overall 'good work' rating from his manager.
He works in a team of 12 split across 3 shifts. 4 on each shift. They were all informed that there was going to be 3 people selected. I believe that they have deliberately scored him low to get rid, simply because of his record of a good standard of work.
The day he was informed that he was selected for redundancy he was told to go home on full pay and they let me take him home.
When I returned to work I saw they had another employee doing his job. The manager eventually moved the other employee after I and other people complained.

I know it would be pointless fighting it but it's just good to get this off my chest to be honest.
He has his consultation in a couple of days and I'm going with him. They did tell him there is a good chance that he might be offered an alternative position but it will be less money.

 

[byteagig]

Thanks for all the replies. We are going to the consultation tomorrow, I think the best outcome we can expect is that they offer him the other role that they previously mentioned which is £1.70ph less.

Seems like an awful lot of effort on their part just to save £1.70 per hour x 3??? Afaik they are offering the lesser paid roles to the other 2 lads as well.

 

[byteagig]

They said from the beginning that they aren't offering voluntary redundancy for some reason.
It's a very large multinational company we work for.

Went to the consultation today, and have another one on Friday morning.

 

[byteagig]

Well that's the sneaky thing that they have done here, is offer these guys a suitable alternative position and if they turn it down they lose their right to statutory redundancy pay.

Win win for the company

 

[byteagig]

Not looking to derail the thread, but lack of negative feedback isn't an outright blocker to improvement opportunities.

True but if you aren't told that you are **** at your job and that the managers think you are, then you don't have an opportunity to rectify that. You just carry on thinking you are doing fine.
If they tell you that they think you are bad then at least you have the choice or chance to improve.