Classy King Charles?

[ColadhSamh]

That was quick, couldn't wait. What a way to treat loyal staff.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/21402084.king-charles-clarence-house-staff-made-redundant-church-service-queen/.

So food banks have to close but the urgent business of sacking his staff can happen asap ?

They don't treat their staff well, as a rule. This is sad as I imagine many of them do the job from a sense of pride in serving the Royal Family, only to be discarded when it's convenient to do so. However we don't know yet whether they will be 'redeployed' elsewhere within the royal fold.

That's a blood joke.
I would gladly be sacked from that fucked up family.

Start as you mean to go on, Disgusting!

Sounds like it's a legal process not something that he had anything to do with. Where possible they will be found other roles or helped to find other work. Seems in poor taste but it might be written somewhere that it has to be done now, constitutional law

I think the 'law' reference refers to the redundancy process. Regardless what a despicable way to treat his loyal staff. No respect or compassion.

But the roles are now redundant.

Queen - has a household of staff
Charles & Camilla - have a household of staff

The queen has died. Therefore there is reduced need. Redundancies must occur.

As Bernadette said: they need to merge two entire businesses effectively. If they kept everyone, people would be complaining about too much staff expenditure.

I agree that they will need to shed some staff but do they really have to do it so fast? There's still another week before the funeral! I don't see why they can't wait a while, it's not as though they're hard up is it?

And it's not like Charles said "off with their heads"

There'll be some Director of Operations of Royal Palaces who's job is to manage all of this at their own discretion, who will have budgets to hit and targets and all sorts of HR stuff that comes with running a company, which this is. It is a business. End of.

It's just fact though isn't it and I expect many will be redeployed into new roles in the new household anyway
It's not him/his decision It's nature of the beast

I agree, @noodlezoodle

They've decreed 10 days of official mourning but can manage to give redundancy notices out? It may well be a business need but it looks bad right at this time.

Also, you can't say the staff didn't already have an idea that there would be redundancies? The death of the queen wasn't that far away - staff across both households will have pondered what will happen when she did go.

I presume a lot of this is about setting up the legal framework to move some of them to new roles in his new household - could be justifiable. Hope they're communicating well with everyone affected

Oh please! He needs meticulous care with our business finances when it comes to staff payroll.

The rest of the time Saudi Royals throw bags of cash at him in exchange for access and the record-keeping will take a slight back seat...

It's in incredibly bad taste and I feel really sad for the people treated in this way.

If you read the report it says they were given notice of the beginning of the consultation process which could lead to some redundancies. It also says that attempts will be made to final alternative roles in the other royal households. So not necessarily redundant yet.

I imagine an HR manager somewhere is responsible and is simply doing their job. If they kept staff on with nothing to do they would probably be accused of wastefulness, so they can't win.
I doubt King Charles was even aware.

Charles will be well aware.
In my business I work for lots is on hold, We were supposed to have various events that are postponed because we are in the official mourning period. My boss says he is following the guidelines issued. We are not even allowed celebratory posts on our work social media during the official mourning. But Charles is happy to start the redundancy process for his staff.

This will absolutely not be a shock to the staff in any way, shape or form.

For most it’s the beginning of the formalities of being transferred from the Prince of Wales’ household to the King’s household or from the Queen’s household to the King’s.

Its par for the course when you work for the royal family and won’t have surprised anyone. Most will likely have known for years what their role would be when this happens.

Oh goody, another 'I hate the monarchy' thread.

As Bernadette said, the roles aren't needed anymore.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62897488

This article states that they wanted to postpone this news but they were advised that legally the staff had to be told sooner rather than later.

@ApolloandDaphne All I can see is the Butler defending their actions, not any legal opinion.
The union has denounced them doing this during the official period of mourning rightly. At least wait until after the Queen's funeral.

Well it says that in the linked article. I am not an employment lawyer not the butler so have not idea about the veracity of this.

This.

Are they supposed to keep both sets of staff on and pay them, even though they aren’t needed?

@ApolloandDaphne I can't see anyone but the Butler defending this.

The paragraph here says this @antelopevalley