employment lawyer - please help urgent ..... Re engagement

[willowbark]

Hi

Please help my friend is in a re engagement situation. what does that mean in practical terms, real life, going back e.g. I have tried to look up the details for my friend in law books and online but there is no practical guidance.

1. job different but same payscale. would the contract be same as before? would the terms and conditions be the same?

2. my friend is being required to fill in new forms about personal details again like work history. what should my friend put down that they have been re engaged?

What do you mean by a “reengagement situation”? What has actually happened?

My friend was awarded re engagement by tribunal. A new job role to the previous one has been given. However the friend has the fill out paperwork as if a new employee . Is that right ? From what I understand re engagement means being treated like an existing employee ?

It may be that the company had taken your friend off their data base if they were dismissed. Now they have been reinstated, the firm might be asking for the information again? I would ensure though, and this is more important, that your friend has continuous employment. There should be no break and they are not starting from day 1. It’s continuous. Make sure this is in the written contract terms for the job your friend receives. If it’s a different job, on the same grade, and that’s been agreed, then it’s ok to agree to that contract but don’t agree to a break in service.

Did your friend have legal representation for the Tribunal, if so their legal rep should have tried to secure continuity of employment as a condition of the Award, as this has implications on pension, certain benefits and employment rights to ensure that continuity. Wasn't all that clarified at the ET?

I can't imagine a company wiping an employee's record completely clean, especially if there was a court case ongoing.