directors didnt have the guts to tell us. Should we have been asked if we wanted redundancy.
2007-05-10 22:40:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
If the company has been taken over by another company then your directors were under no obligation to inform you of the impending changes. In fact they would have not been able to say anything to the employees until the deal was completed.
They will not offer you redundancy as your employment will be automatically transferred to the new company. Just because the company has been sold it does not meant that your job is redundant.
At some point in the future the new owners may decide to re-organise the structure of the company and then if your job is no longer required and there is no suitable alternative job within the you, can be offered redundancy, but not because the company has been sold.
2007-05-10 23:00:22 · answer #1 · answered by Sharon W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why all of a sudden should the bosses consult the workers? They never have in the past.
For your own benefit, I recommend that you join a Union, no matter what your occupation, because a Union will protect you from the worst ravages of boss mismanagement, deceit an lies.
I will be totally honest with you and explain to you that the most important people in UK are the 'share holders'. If you are working for a 'quoted company', do as Karl Marx said and buy shares in the company where you work, thus, the workers will own the means of production.
Think of it like this. If you work for company 'A' which is quoted on the stock-market and you own shares in the company, you can go to the AGM [annual general meeting] every year. What can you do at the AGM? If your boss is not performing well, you can vote him off the board. Get support from other shareholders.
You can see right away if you and your fellow workers in a firm were all in the same Union and you all owned shares in the company where you work, your bosses would take a totally different attitude towards you.
Unity is Strength, brother.
2007-05-10 22:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As always the boss's of companies do what is best for them with out thinking about the results on there staff.
If you have been made redundant there is a correct procedure that should have been followed before you where given notice. Typically this will involve the company demonstrating why you as an individual have been selected for redundancy in place of some body else.
After 9years service you should get a reasonable redundancy package in accordance with your original contract of employment.
2007-05-10 22:50:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legally the bosses must send you a letter telling you that the company has/is being sold. Then they tell you face to face, but this is not statutory. It is quite legal for a man owning a business to sell it to another. The employees then become employees of the new company. If the new company don't want the employee to work there anymore (and they need a good reason), they must pay that employee redundancy money. Your contract remains the same as it was with your previous employer.
2007-05-10 23:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by Curious39 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do NOT have to offer Redundancy..... (unless of course you Job is not longer required in the new Organisation e.g. you are the Personal Assistant of one of the departing Directors ... and there are no suitable equivalent / alternative vacancies in the new organisation)
However they DO have to maintain the same Terms & Conditions - check out TUPE rules.
2007-05-11 01:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep happened to me two weeks ago, my team is being outsourced to Argentina, they can do it but it was the manner that they do it that got to me, they didn't even tell us we were losing our jobs directly they just went on about how good this change will be for the company, well the company can screw itself
2007-05-10 22:50:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is absolutely nothing to stop you looking for and applying for another job if you don't like the new regime.
Good Luck
2007-05-10 22:47:27 · answer #7 · answered by freddiem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 06:20:01 · answer #8 · answered by adamek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes , you still have the option , seek advice from the CAB
But the new people might be nice , don't rush into anything without letting them explain what they think
2007-05-10 23:30:23 · answer #9 · answered by Stephen A 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
only if your job is going to change significantly I.E New location,changed job description and duties or pay cuts
2007-05-10 22:43:10 · answer #10 · answered by Sir Sidney Snot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋