Training junior staff to take over "Redundant" role

[Norsington]

Hi,

I've recently been notified* that my role is now redundant due to Coronavirus. Many people in my company have received the same notice and appears that HR have taken all the correct legal steps. I've been told that I have to work through my notice period, which isn't great, but my boss has advised me that he will release me early at full pay if I can train up other more junior team members to take over my responsibilities once I'm gone.
I'm not familiar with UK Laws, but surely it is illegal to make a role redundant, then not only have more junior team members* pick up the workload, but also have them trained by the person who is being made redundant? Any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[ULA]

I am wondering, given that redundancies have been announced under the current circumstances due to coronavirus, that the main reason for this situation is that the company needs to reduce staff numbers in order to reduce costs. In which case this is a legitimate reason for redundancy.

Another reason for redundancy is when the job someone does no longer exists in which case the issue you have raised would lead to the question as to why the position was made redundant in the first place.

If the redundancy exercise is about reducing costs but all jobs still need to be carried out with fewer people, then so long as the consultation and process for selecting staff to be made redundant was fair then It is likely to be more difficult to argue why remaining staff need to be trained.*

I appreciate this is a really difficult situation to be facing, so if I have misunderstood any aspects of your post or you have more questions, please come back to this thread.*


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