Is this constructive/wrongful dismissal?

[Helium]

Hello
What do you think - is this constructive dismaissal?
I work p/t 2.5 days a week. Havent had more than about 2 hours worth of work to do per week for a couple of months now. I keep telling my manager, have created a bit of work for myself, ask colleagues to pass on any extra work. I was told at my review today that I had to wait for the dust to settle around a new dept manager (he's been here since Sept FGS!) before any work comes my way. We've had to start filling in these forms stating wht we do with our time - thats fine - but I am basically lying on mine to make up the time. Is incredibally demotivational especially when I offer ideas of what I could be doing (which I think are quite good!) and always being told I;m creative and have lots of potential. Im at the end of my tetheer, want to cry and hate wasting time like this.
Help!!!!

[PuzzleRocks]

Bumping for you.

[SlartyBartFast]

what do you do
crossword?
i would hate it too

[divedaisy]

I'm confused - have you been dismissed from your job??
If you have had good job reviews you cannot suddenly become a bad employee. However in this industrial credit crunch employers do have the right to pay employees off - it's constantly in the news. But what you have described, it doesn't read that you have lost your job.
If you still have your job I'd go back to the manager you spoke to originally and raise your concerns again, even put it in writing. If your manager doesn't act on it, is there someone above him/her to approach? You may need to put the complaint in formally - this will put you in a position whereby you are placing the respoonsibility for the amount of work/lack of work you are able to do. It's not your fault there is so little coming your way. Can you even transfer to another dept? Do you have access to a union rep for help?

[flowerybeanbag]

I wouldn't say this is constructive dismissal. You do need to raise your concerns formally in writing though and try and get this sorted.

Why do you think you have no work to do? Is there lots of work around but being done by someone else? If it would be a case of you creating some work for you to do, that might not be good enough. I'm just wondering about having to fill in forms stating what you do with your time, sound like a bit of an analysis of efficiency and cost effectiveness of staff.

If you've lied on the form and pretended you have plenty to do, that will be a problem as well. You can't formally raise an issue of being given no work as credibly if you've just formally declared on a form that you are doing plenty.

how long have you been there?