Called into meeting, advice please.

[ThewrathofBethDutton]

Next week.
There are several of us being called, meeting is with senior manager and HR manager.
Meeting is to discuss changes in structure.

Anyone experienced this before and can shed some light?

Worried beyond belief.

Prepare yourself for redundancy.

I agree, I had the exact same and was made redundant.
Get your CV up to date and start looking I'm afraid x

Is that what it means?
Oh lord.

But my job is so so busy and full on with lots of people relying on me. Would they just get rid?

Can I ask, what does redundancy look like? Do they offer you a package and does that depend on length of time with the company?

How long have you worked there, are you in a union, has there been any talk of redundancies, restructuring or consultation meetings.

If you work in the same department, management may propose alternative suggestions to redundancy I. e. that one or more of you reduce your hours.
What sector do you work in?
Has this happened elsewhere in the company?

Likely restructure/jobs at risk of redundancy

No talk of redundancies at all no, no talk of restructuring or consultation meetings either. Completely out of the blue.
worked there just over 3 years.

It totally depends on your employer. There may be a redundancy policy on your intranet?

You are only entitled to redundancy pay if you’ve been employed over two years. If under two years, you would receive your contractual notice pay. This is subject to the usual tax deductions.

If over two years, and made redundant, the bare minimum package you’ll receive is your weekly wage or £700 a week (whichever is lower) for every year you have worked for the company. Eg. If you have worked there four years, you’d get 4 x your weekly wage. This redundancy pay is not taxed. In addition; you would also receive your contractual notice pay with usual taxable deductions.

Being put into a redundancy consultation does not mean you are definitely going to be made redundant. The employer must follow a process where they

1. Tell you all what is happening
2. Invite you to a consultation meeting where you’ll learn what scoring criteria is being used to choose who goes
3. Score you and your team members
4. Tell the lowest scoring people they are redundant

So you may be fine, but you may not be. Think about how you compare to those doing a same or similar role to you.

Company has expanded, new sectors and business opportunities recently.
Bread and butter stuff doing super super well, all extremely exciting and positive.
The people called into the meetings are all integral to the business, are standard roles in our industry, these roles in every similar company.

May not result in redundancy for you then but could be changes to job roles.

Fingers crossed for you OP - hopefully it's something other than redundancy

Thanks, fingers crossed!

My initial thought was HR presence meant redundancies, but maybe not given your other posts

Good luck op hope it's ok

Hopefully its not redundancy. 12mths prior to my company doing redundancies (including my own), senior staff were asked to take temporary pay cuts. The very senior CEO took no pay, the next level took 20% of their pay, next 30% etc. I think anyone under £60,000 still got their full wage and weren't asked. Are you very senior?

I don't work in HR so might be wrong, but believe the process can be slightly different, depending how many people are being made redundant. We were sent a list of other jobs in the company if we wanted to apply- none of which were applicable to me! We were also given a 3rd party advisor company/person to support us through it all. They were supposed to help with re-doing CV's, advising on the the job market etc. My company paid for this as additional support- but its not something they did with the next redundancy round because they were so useless!

If you are in a union, get in touch once you know. It not, ACAS has guidance online. Remember, you can negotiate your owed leave- whether its paid out or you leave earlier and you can take a friend/family member/union rep/colleague along with you to further meetings.

There has to be a period of consultancy if redundancies are proposed. They may be intending to put you all in a pool of people whose jobs are at risk. During the consultation period, criteria for choosing which people will be made redundant are discussed and employees can make suggestions that would reduce the number of jobs that will be lost. A voluntary redundancy package might be offered.

It used to be legal to make people redundant with no warning whatsoever, but I don’t think that’s allowed now. Unless the company is going bankrupt.

Hopefully none of this will be relevant to you though. Good luck!