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    my husband works for a building firm. They have recently made 2 people redundant and my husband may be another casualty soon along with 2 others.
    he is having a bad problem accepting this and so do the first 2 who have been given 12wks notice.
    the said people above have worked for the firm for over 10yrs. attendance great and overtime exceptional apparently and that was said from managin director but decisions where based on other factors apparently.
    in the last year, 3 family members of a managing director have been brought in to company as a buyer, a receptionist and a joiner.
    the people who are being made redundant have put in an appeal against this decision because they feel the family members should go because their jobs where basically made up to give them a job because all the jobs they do where done by others before these family members came into the firm.
    The union have apparently asked the firm to give them details for the scoring sheets or soemthing like that to find out why they came to the decisions they did because this has caused a few raised eye brows now.

    is there a set way to decide on redundancys and is it not the last people in who should leave first?
    my hubbys employers were in bother 7yrs ago when they made someone redundant and kept on a family member who only started 6 mths previous to redundancy so they were made ot pay for that mistake and my hubby thinks its happening again.
    can tehy do this wen thier family members should be first to leave?
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    Re: redundancy

    Don't know all the answers, but I do know that redundancy does not have to be on a "last in, first out" basis. Which is where the scoring sheets come in. Also, it's not the person that's made redundant, it's the job. As in, they can't say that job no longer exists then give the same job to someone else to do.

    There is a lot of info on this site, you might find some answers here Redundancy and leaving your job : Directgov - Employment
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