Pools, skills and unique posts

Len · #1 07-03-10, 01:22 PM

I've recently been told I am "at risk" as my job is "unique". As a result of this unique-ness I am not in any selection pools.

My employer has put people who currently have similar roles in pools. So pools have been determined by current jobs and not skills.

I feel I have skills that fit me into several pools, having previously worked in some of the roles that are in pools.

Can pools be determined only on current jobs? Should skills not be a factor when deciding on pools? Where do I stand with regard to challenging this?

Thanks,
Len

face2facehr · #2 09-03-10, 12:59 PM

Difficult to say without more details but as a general rule it sounds ok to me.

Say, for the sake of argument there are a group of 5 secretaries in a department who are in a pool to reduce down to 3. If someone doing a different job who happened to have similar skills was put in the pool for the job the 5 secretaries are already doing and effectively could 'bump' one of them out of a job, they might feel hard done by, and justifiably really.

If you are doing a specific unique job and that specific unique job is no longer required, I think it's fine to say you are redundant. Obviously if there is any way of redeploying you or offering alternative employment your employer should do that, but the reduced number of roles in other people's groups aren't available.