Is this legal - redundancy pools?

[Getdressed]

I hope someone can help as I am writing my appeal letter regarding a grievance over my redundancy.

4 managers had to go to 3. At the grievance hearing I was told that my post was chosen as I was the assistant manager(there are also two managers and a senior manager). I asked if we were put into a pool and a matrix system carried out but there wasn't.

Can they just choose the junior manager? I do a very similar role to my manager but we had a bigger team to manage and based in a satellite office hence the two of us.

TIA

I'm no expert so will bump this for you by saying that I've experienced similar whereby the company I worked for regularly restructured taking out tiers of management where there was duplication

On the face of it it sounds fine. If they had one senior manager, two managers and one assistant manager it seems reasonable to make a business decision to remove the extra layer of management and do without anyone in an assistant manager position. As you are the only one on that level, there is no need for a selection process as such. It sounds as though they were deciding which role/s to keep/lose rather than deciding between candidates for those roles if that makes sense?

Presumably you staying on and managing your/a team by yourself would involve a promotion anyway?