Work advice needed

[Gini87]

I work for a large public sector organisation. There are 3 of us on the same pay grade. The other 2 had the same job title and mine was a slight variation of the one that they had. A while ago our Managing Director suggested that my job title should be changed, which we changed but retaining the same pay grade as the other 2.

In January there is to be review of all job roles. The other 2 on the same pay grade have met with the Managing Director and Service Director and have had job planning and new portfolios set. I have not had this.

Next week there is a workshop planned to look at the staffing review where today I have been told that the other two on the same pay grade are going to be part of and will be supporting with the new revised structure. I have not been invited to attend this workshop.

I do not feel or think it is appropriate that the other 2 are to be involved in decisions and discussions relating to my post which may result in my role being cut.

I have had supervision with my manager and I have raised all of this weeks ago and he said that he would write to the MD and ask for job role clarity and job planning but he hasn't done this.

I have bills to pay and I am very concerned about what may happen and I feel like I have been treated unfairly and I feel invisible.

Additionally, one of the 2 met with MY team around new processes when I was on annual leave and never told me about the meetings. They went ahead and did work I had naturally assumed I would be doing with my team.

My wellbeing and confidence is being battered daily and i do not know how to proceed when it feels my line manager isn't hearing me.

So you have the same role and pay as the others but stopped from attending the workshop?

have you got a redundancy policy?

how long have you worked there, and have you been there longer than the others?

I've been there over 20 years. It's more likely to be redeployment rather than redundancy.

Well we all had similar job titles but the MD suggested I changed mine a while ago as their two roles were more similar than mine. I have not been invited to the workshop at all.

I can relate to the fear from experience of my job in the private sector being up for the chop during a massive restructure while I was undergoing an egg collection (that's big money, many years spent saving). I know it's frightening, but you're in the public sector, people don't get sacked, they get moved around (redeployed).

If I understand your post OP, you think your manager has been aware of a reorganisation and in preparation for it realised reassigning your title would make it easier to have you relocated?

Yes redeployment is likely but I don't feel it is a fair or level playing field. Plus being redeployed on the same pay grade will be hard as roles this level come up few and far between.

I hadn't thought of it like that but actually it was the MD decision rather than my managers.

Sounds like the new structure and roles has been agreed and there was only 2 roles in your area which the other 2 have got by virtue of not being assigned new titles.

Speak to your union rep asap

I'm waiting on a callback.

I’m so angry. I just feel it’s been done in such an underhanded way. Also can somebody on the same pay grade be making decisions about same graded posts?! Feels like a conflict of interest / self preservation.