Can they change your department, line management and entire job description?

[Rocketbird]

Have been at my current place for 11 years. Was told last week that my line management was changing. OK, I guess they can do that, I'm not happy about it as I have a real rapport with my current boss but...

Now this week they tell me I won't be working in the same department as they are splitting and they are starting my job description from scratch, getting rid of everything I used to do and giving me completely different work. I'm furious. I worked in an education setting and will now be forced to work in a financial one, which I am crap at.

Can they do this?

I think that would count as a change of contract, so they would have to jump through a few hoops, but in the long-term, if your current posistion doesn't exist any more, yes. Although you may be able to opt for redundancy.

Flowerybeanbag or Ribenaberry would be able to advise you better.

What's happening to the work you are currently doing? You say they are 'getting rid' of it. If that's the case and you are going to a different job in a different department, that sounds like a redundancy situation so the question would be whether the new position is 'suitable' or not.

OK, I'll try to explain :)

I currently line manage one person, was soon to be two. They take bookings from certain groups. Half of my job was overseeing, occasionally helping, advising and planning. I will no longer have anything to do with that and, although they haven't said it yet they are becoming experts at stealth revealing (!) and I suspect I will be told that I will no longer be a line manager.

I am also involved in other areas, some of which are on hold for the moment due to lack of funding and some of them will be done by other people. Basically, that part of the job was quite high up admin cover for teachers (not in a school) and they will now have to do their own organisation.

I did a small amount of finance work and I will probably still do that. But it will increase to form about 95% of my workload.

I'm annoyed because I've had no choice in this, because I am not good at what they are wanting me to do. The finance I did evolved over the years and I can do it because I've done it for so long. I am not a maths-headed person so am now concerned that this new role will be beyond me and as dull as ditchwater.

Does any of that make sense? My boss knows I am upset and she is upset too but she has no control over it.

Well, as I suspected above, the person that I line manage has just been told in a meeting that, as of today, I am no longer her line manager. She has been sworn to secrecy (!) as I am apparently going to be told tomorrow So I've been demoted, in effect.

I am furious. Just to clarify, this has come about through departmental changes and not as any reflection on me personally, just in case it looks like they have issues with my work, they don't. They may well have issues with me after today though

I can't believe they can change every single thing like this and I'm supposed to just sit back and accept it.