Redundancy Q

Hi

I currently work as a manager at a certain location, and i have a colleague that works for the same company doing the same job at another location.

The company i work for have now said the role we do is redundant, but at the same time have told us we can apply for the same titled role - the difference being you would manage both locations rather than the one - and as such we are now forced to apply against one another.

Is this a legal way to make someone redundant, when the role your doing is still going to be available to re-apply for ?

can you help ?

Many thanks.

Yes this is fine. They have two managers and have decided going forward that they will merge the two jobs into one and therefore will only need one of you. It's fine to ask you both to apply for the new job, if they think that's the fairest way to decide, and it's fine that the other person will therefore be redundant.

Other than obviously being concerned about the prospect of being made redundant, is there anything else you think is a problem? Do you think this should have been handled differently or anything?