Hi all, desperate for some clarity and unfortunately HR aren’t being very forthcoming! I’ll try to keep this as brief as I can.
Last week our entire staff team were called into a meeting to be told that there was going to be a big restructure and that we would receive emails later that day. I received an email that evening telling me that my role is at risk. The email said that ‘as your role is unique to the organisation, we have not applied selection criteria. We did consider ‘bumping’ of more junior roles but decided it would not be appropriate in the circumstances’. The email includes a copy of the proposed new organisational chart. It also goes on to say that my role and a more senior role are both at risk, with one combined role emerging. There are four posts that would sit under this new role.
Everyone else that I have spoken to that is at risk was also sent a list of roles they may wish to consider. I wasn’t. I received a copy of the job description for the role that is being created from my current role and the more senior role yesterday along with an email that said ‘please take time to review the draft job description and prepare any questions you may have ahead of (meeting date)’.
I am assuming that I have been sent this job description so that I can see the rationale for getting rid of my current role. It’s pretty obvious to me that I will be going. Is the meeting simply to give me a chance to suggest ways I could keep my role (which seems a bit futile really, but I understand there are boxes that need to be ticked). The new structure makes sense to me and I’ve got no urge to go in and embarrass myself by pretending that it doesn’t. So should I just be asking about redundancy pay, notice periods, that sort of thing? It’s hard to prepare for something you’re not entirely sure the purpose of.