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swanseajacks · 09/06/2010 09:53

My company is going through a restructure. One job out of our immediate team has disappeared. My position is the one they have elected to make redundant. I have been offered an alternative role but management insist I have to be in office 100% of time when my contract allows me to work some of the time from home so I can meet my childcare commitments. Do I have to accept? What happens if I turn it down? To make things more complicated, one of my colleagues has elected to retire, leaving a position still vacant in my immediate team. Should they offer this role to me considering it is more suitable to me in terms of hours? I suspect management will insist that this role too will now need to be performed 100% from office because they have been difficult about my flexible working since I returned from mat leave in March. They told me my old role had changed (which it hasn't) and could no longer support my flex working and moved me to this new role (which has now been made redundant) citing that this could support my flexi working. I suspect all along they want to abolish my flexible working. Can they do this?

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seeyoukay · 13/06/2010 20:45

They can cite business need and make all the positions 100% office based even if you've previously had a flexible arrangement.

When you say "meet childcare commitments" what do you mean? There is a difference between needing to collect children from school and wanting to save money on a child minder by only using then 3 days a week.

Though as they've offered you an alternative role (either the one you've offered or the one opening by retirement) would be fairly good and deemed suitable alternative employment you would have to accept it or refuse it.

Refuse it and you'll be made redundant with no payout as you've been offered something else. The only choice after that is to go to a tribunal and hope they deem the other job as unsuitable.

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