Internal promotion without advertisement.

[nightmusk]

I appreciate that it is not a legal requirement for an employer to advertise a vacancy.

However,if a junior colleague (in terms of length of service and hours worked) is promoted over you,to a position that has not been advertised (at least internally),does this cause any potential problems for the employer?

For example,what would happen if your employer then tried to make you redundant?

Promotion should be on capability. Length of service and hours worked should always be irrelevant. So no, nothing you can do.

StillSquiffy thanks for the advice! Its not the fact of the promotion that bothers me - they are perfectly free to take on who they choose.
What I am concerned about is that redundancies are afoot,and I am wondering whether I would have any recourse if I were to be made redundant,given that I hadn't been given the opportunity to apply for this position

The position that has been filled without advertisement is one that I feel I would be quite capable of, and really I cannot see any reason that would mean I would be automatically precluded prior to any application being considered.

Well, you should ask them why you weren't considered for the role, so that you know what you may need to change to impress them more, but really there's no protection if they simply think she'd do the job better than other colleagues.

Nothing you can do about redundancies either, although more expensive people can often find this works against them, so she might be more in the firing line now than before..

Thanks StillSquiffy.

I suppose many of us wish we were bomb proof in the current climate!

Ah well! - bite the bullet and work harder!