New employees taken over my role.

Company is growing. Previously 3 employees, and takes on 6 additional employees.

Over a 6month period, responsibilities and tasks are gradually moved away from myself to other new employees one by one. One of the new employees is the appointed as "manager". Informally I am told that I would not have been considered for the "manager" job in any case, despite having performed the same role for the previous 8 years.

I am given a new role and told that I am not the right person for this role, and if I would had applied for this job, then I would not have even got an interview!! I think this was hoping that I would walk, but as I do not I am then told that my role is redundant.

Is this selection process fair? I was employed 8 years prior to the new employees joining, and taking over my roles. The work is still there, just done by someone else who has been given a new job title.

On the face of it it doesn't sound fair, no. Was there actually any selection process at all, or just your job being redundant with no one else involved.

I don't think the new manager role is relevant to this especially - although good practice dictates that promotions should be advertised internally with a selection process, that isn't any kind of requirement, so unless you feel there is some illegal discrimination involved in that decision, it's probably one of those 'not fair but not illegal' things.

Your redundancy on the other hand could well be unfair. What happened to the new role you were given? If your old role was redundant and they offered you a new role that implies they felt the new role was suitable for you, but then decided it actually wasn't? Could be literally something designed to make you resign and save them redundancy pay though I agree.

Have you actually left employment yet? Your first step is to appeal the decision on the basis that a) there was not a genuine redundancy situation and b) they did not follow a reasonable or appropriate redundancy procedure. You need to set out evidence of both.

Just as an aside, if you think this was an elaborate plan to manage you out of the business, why do you think that was? Obviously it's not ok for them to do that but in terms of working out how to approach your next steps, understanding their motives is always helpful I find.

No selection process. I am still in employment at the moment.