In consultation with no fair chance of redundancy selection procedure

[stressed.com]

I'm in a very tricky situation with my current work situation and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

We are currently in a consultation process with a number of people in my department at risk of redundancy, only 1 is to remain in their current position, my problem lies in the fact that the person selecting the people to be made redundant has a major issue with me and I cannot see myself getting a fair and justified chance at keeping my job.

The issue was that I highlighted some discrepancies in the financial records to senior management (not actually sure how much detail I can put on here) but to cut a long story short the issue was sorted internally and the person in question was kept in their position, as my direct line manager I might add, and my life has been hell ever since.

I have never spoke about the abuse I have suffered since but I am at my wits end because I know I am good at my job and I have a mortgage to pay and up until now I always feared losing my job so I didn't say anything but now I actually am going to lose it and want to know exactly what options I have.

Since the incident I have been ignored when asking work related questions, screamed at in front of colleagues, had doors flung back in my face, been ridiculed on staff nights out to the point that a person from another department had to actually say that enough is enough, been swore at etc etc the list goes on... but each time I kept my cool, said I didn't appreciate been spoken to in that way etc etc.

I don't want to be seen as the type of person that moans but I haven't been sleeping for a good 2 years, lost weight, lost my appetite, feel on the verge of tears all the time and I just want to stop feeling like this and get on with my life. But I also want to make sure that I have some sort of professional future and with how things are going I can't see that happening.

What I really mean is that just want some sort of justice for the fact that I thought I was doing a good job in bringing the matters to the attention of management, but i didn't know that the 2 people in question were big buddies, and instead of the very serious consequences that should have arisen, it was covered up and the person has continued with the company, why should they have the opportunity to stay in a profession and earn a wage when I am having that taken away from me and when they really should have lost that opportunity quite a while ago.

Please help me, any advice at all would be greatly appreciated on what I should do next

 

[greenfield]

Morning stressed - poor you, I have some questions..
When you say "consultation process" what do you mean - are there meetings that you are involved in? Are you represented at meetings? Is there any indication of what criteria they are proposing to apply to the redundancies? Is there a system of formal performance appraisal in your company? Maybe you could fill us in on the detail of what has been said to staff so far about the process.
Is there a written grievance procedure in your company?

 

[Leo]

Consultation process of 30 days required when more than 10% of staff are to be made redundant. See [broken link removed].

For many companies, this process is a formaility to be observed, and the list of names will already be known. Take a look a the previous threads here on bullying.
Leo

 

[flatbroke]

Stressd .
If you are selected for redundancy (which I hope your not) you are entitled to know why eg : Last in first out (lifo) first in first out (fifo) or if its a skill set.

Have you kept a diary of the problems you have had ?

 

[greenfield]

Maybe stressed.com could tell us what consultation / process is actually happening, what they have been told, whether they are being included, have they been given any information on what selection criteria is being considered etc. Once s/he tells us some more I think we can give a better opinion on whether (1) what is being done or proposed is fair and (2) what s/he could do in response.

 

[shipibo]

Stressd .
If you are selected for redundancy (which I hope your not) you are entitled to know why eg : Last in first out (lifo) first in first out (fifo) or if its a skill set.

Have you kept a diary of the problems you have had ?

This is bang on.

Ask the company to document criterion they are using for Mandatory Redundancy phase.

If they refuse this request, call http://www.flac.ie

and get to a industrial relations lawyer.

Why have they not opened voluntary redundancy, early retirement package