Temps doing higher value work

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How normal is this? We've had a number of temporary workers join our team (who believe they are in a long-term thing) thing is it has annoyed the existing team as whilst the temps will have received longer training, they are also doing work above us which has come unexpected. Even the sanest person on the team is now saying it feels like we were taken on as an afterthought to begin with.

I joined with other people in what was a new team, new site and a perm role couple of months ago now with our training cut short - only on the first day it was said they had actually let the previous team go and 'paid them off' so presume redundancy - so could that have an effect on why they have gone with temps doing different work to us?

There has been no review meetings with us, no form of quality control done on our work since in the role, they pull stats as it is really only about the numbers so there seems to be no reasoning to it.

It can't have been redundancy if they replaced them.

Thanks, I did think it strange with us retaining the same job title as the original team clear out, I was just hopeful there was something in it.

I wish I'd kind of waited to become a temp now.

What do you mean by temps? As in someone employed via an agency, in which case the employer is the agency, not your employer. Or do you mean a fixed term employee? In which case it is normal to pay more due to the lack of permanence. Or do you mean self employed contractors who are able to set their own rates and will invoice your employer?

There’s no real redress for you in any of these situations because you have not suffered any detriment.

It sounds like the business model here is to bring you in, partly train you, then let you go before you get any rights, usually after bringing in the next lot for slightly different work or a different project. I've heard of loads of companies doing this.

Hold your finger up to the wind for any major restructures in the offing in the next 6-12 months; or possibly a decision on outsourcing or unstable funding of a project, if it is a project. Had a version of this happen twice (fortunately, as a temp myself): one was a huge and national project that had gone on for about 8 years but the funding was pulled, and the other was a restructure that devolved responsibility of major pieces of taught work onto a network of other departments, with the plan to axe the original that connected all of them, completely.