Seniority with same starts

[Jamesey88]

A vacancy is due to be filled in my local office. Upon believing i was in with a good chance of getting it i was told that another employee (who started the same day as me) was senior to me and for that reason will be getting it. I was told this was because he is older than me. I cannot seem to fathom this to be a good enough reason as age discrimination should not come into it. I Would like to know how seniority should be correctly decided with same starts please

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Where several employees have the same length of service (as defined above), the agreement provides for seniority to be determined in the following order: firstly, any periods of Post Office service on other grades (i.e. longest total PO service first), secondly, date of selection (i.e. earliest date first) and thirdly, date of birth (i.e. oldest first). For employees recruited since the date of the agreement (14 February 2000), “date of selection” will be defined as follows: firstly date of the letter offering employment (earliest first), if still equal then date of interview (earliest first), if still equal then date of test (earliest first). If then still equal then the third “date of birth” criterion is considered as above.

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[Judgee]

Yup it sucks. Every resign I have the same person nip in before me on the selections just because he's an old fart even though we started on the same day. It isn't fair but then life isn't so what the hell!

[glenfiddich]

So how could it be fairer?

[UnhappyGremlin]

So how could it be fairer?

Toss a coin each time it is an issue.

I used to work with 2 guys with this 'issue'.

They took it in turns each time a re-pick occurred.
It isn't a difficult thing to handle, just requires a local agreement and cooperation.

[Judgee]

So how could it be fairer?

Toss a coin each time it is an issue.

I used to work with 2 guys with this 'issue'.

They took it in turns each time a re-pick occurred.
It isn't a difficult thing to handle, just requires a local agreement and cooperation.

Yup that would be fairer. Wouldn't work with this guy though he readily admits he doesn't care about anybody else.