Told job is being relocated and at risk, can they do this?

[Emmz0]

On maternity leave at moment and our most of our section in the company is being relocated.

can they do this as i am in the first 6 months period of maternity leave.

they also mentioned that some jobs will not be relocated in another part of the section and i can apply via a mini competion process. can they do this too?

Yes they can relocate and make roles redundant and your maternity leave is irrelevant to those organisational decisions. However, if there are other suitable roles they should offer you one as a redeployee because you are on maternity leave.

Yes you can apply for other suitable roles or just wait for them to offer you something they deem to be suitable. You're probably better off being part of the process so you get more choice.

To answer your other thread from what you've posted here I can't see what sort of case you might have. Looks pretty standard to me unless it's only your job that's at risk or they're only relocating staff who work part time or something else that could be seen as discriminatory.

KatieMiddleton, thanks very much for your speedy reply, realled appreciated.

They are relocating quite a number of people in my section. There was a form that had to be filled out which was part of process used by management to determine relocation of posts, however, i was unable to fill this in the allocated time due to being in hospital and was told that they would just carry on the process.

Would it have made any difference to the outcome if you had been able to complete the form?

Yes and no. Yes if my manager was a reasonable person. Unfortunately, this is not the case my manager does not like me but I can not prove this to anyone else (incidents in the past include verbally informing me of job adverts for admin jobs whilst the job i'm in now is a particular specialist area.) As the form has to be filled out with approval from manager experience tells me that manager would not approve until form is filled in a way that will cause job to be relocated.

That's not what I meant. What I meant was whether there was anything you could have put on the form that would have prevented your role being relocated/made redundant? For example do you have colleagues that do the same job who would have had opportunity to complete the form who are being relocated any way?

Also have you considered that by relocating your job your manager would also make themself redundant?

What is the business reason/s for relocation? How far away are they relocating?