I think i have just had my first 'notice of redundancy consultation meeting'....

[josben]

My boss did not call it this but she did give me a 'project' to complete about how i can make my marketing job more successful/profitable... I have to put together a report for 2 weeks time about how i can improve my department...

She also said that the company directors had had an outside company in who were making a strategy about how to make the company profitable and the directors had said that they wanted to close the marketing department....

So please can someone tell their experiences with this sort of meeting and confirm whether it always lead to compulsory redundancies?

TIA

I don't have the answer to your question, but right now I would go and get a pen and paper and write down every single thing you remember about this meeting.

If it was a 'proper' consultation, ime, you would know it. They would very clearly state it and give you paperwork to back it up. I don't want to mislead and am not a legal or HR expert so won't go on, but it sounds to me like they are not following process which means you could potentially have grounds for a tribunal.

Write everything down. Take someone with you to the next meeting too.

The only time I had anything similar, yes it was before a redundancy.

In my instance, the outside company turned out to be administrators, I had a meeting with one of the men and it was apparent he was assessing my worth as an asset but he denied it.

Our bosses just kept lying right up to the point we were refused entry to the premises one morning.

Sorry if this is the case for you.

If it was a proper consultation meeting, then this would have been very clear and you would have had a meeting before this to discuss possible redundancies and if you were at risk. You would also have received an invitation to the consultation meeting in writing. Companies have VERY strict procedures to follow regarding redundancies, any deviation could lead to a successful tribunal, so I very much this was a CM.