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Seniority? Right person for the job or NOT ?
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mobungo
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Seniority? Right person for the job or NOT ?
As part of supply chain i have impending redundancy looming. Vacancies have been offered to re locate to Sheffield with the business stating that these positions will be allocated on a `Best man for the job` decision. This makes perfect sense to me but reaction from the union is that seniority will be the only deciding factor even if my position is re locating and i am willing to re locate. any views on this one would be much appreciated.
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Snaggletooth
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Re: Seniority? Right person for the job or NOT ?
CWU in Post Office Counters section had long arguments about using seniority. The conclusion was that seniority is a proxy for age discrimination and therefore illegal under employment law. I am suprised to see it coming up again.mobungo wrote:As part of supply chain i have impending redundancy looming. Vacancies have been offered to re locate to Sheffield with the business stating that these positions will be allocated on a `Best man for the job` decision. This makes perfect sense to me but reaction from the union is that seniority will be the only deciding factor even if my position is re locating and i am willing to re locate. any views on this one would be much appreciated.