At risk of redundancy, line manager moved to my role?

[llunnie]

Hi,

I found out last week that I’m at risk of redundancy. My office has to go through collective consultation as they’re making half the company redundant so I’m in a pool with other people that shares my job title. We’re going from 4 to 2, however, my line manager who is at risk of losing his job (2 managers are being reduced to 1) has been told he can be considered for my pool but he has to opt out of his manager pool so my pool would become 5 of us going for 2 positions.

My question is if that is legal. Could I be made redundant because my line manager is taking my job? I understand if the role isn’t needed anymore then that’s fair but they would be giving someone else my role and making me redundant instead.

I’m having my first consultation meeting on Wednesday so I want to make sure I’m raising relevant points.

Thanks in advance.

[ULA]

In a redundancy situtation the selestion pool does not need to be limited to employees doing the same or similar work. If an employee can easily carry out the duties of a different role (or perhaps has done so in the past) then they can be considered as part of the redundancy pool. It may be on this basis that your manager has been included in the selection pool.

I think this is what you will need to find out from your meeting on Wed.