Hi Meg&Mog, Hmm, depends on your individual situation, the UK employment law states, more or less, that you have little rights if you are in employment for less than 12 months. that said if you believe that the position is being made redundant because of 'other' decisions within the business you may have a claim for unfair or constructive dismissal. Not knowing the grounds for redundancy, difficult to say in your case. bullying is a classic case but hard to prove, been there, you need evidence in any way possible to help your case. I think I have enough evidence to take this further but I have been here for 20 months, so I have managed to get past the 12 month rule. In all honesty the UK employment rules are designed for employers to get rid of employees as quickly as possible, always the case, just this time enshrined in law. Sorry can't give you any more help, just make sure you gather as much evidence in relation to the POSITION being made redundant and not the person, this what I have been doing over the last couple of weeks. One other point, if your employer asks you to supply 'other employment options' make sure you highlight what you do that other people can't do because of your inherent knowledge of the job. One of my CEOs has already asked me, how much work do I put in to optimise their websites to rank highly in search engines, if they have to ask me that why are they making me redundant? Hope this helps best wishes for the future netnut

Many thanks Che for your reply, sorry not to have got back sooner, somewhat distracted at the moment. I will of course be taking legal advice and based on how you've read the situation I may well have a case. BTW the high wage paid to this guy is a desperate means of trying to save one of the companies by bringing in a high flyer from our main competitor. The rest of the company's employess are paid as little as the company can get away with... Once again many thanks Netnut

sorry didn't mean to sign of so abruptly, hit the send button to quickly warmest wishes netnut Oh bugger, my last post didn't register.

Hi nicolee2931 and elche, I am finidng myself in a very similar situation, I was given notice of redundancy a week or so ago, managed to get it delayed a week as the person I wanted to be my 'companion' as they cutely put it was on holiday. Anyway I'm a marketing manger for a group of companies, 2, with a couple of divisions each. I do all the marketing for each and they are all in very diverse markets, so impossilbe to promote the same message. So one of the companies has just hired a Sales and Marketing director, at about £120-150K pa, who has had 2 conversations with me in the six weeks he's been here. The other company with two subs, one of them has hired an outside marketing consultant to do exactly what I was recruited to do. I do have proof of what they have been tasked to do ;-) Do I have a case for constructive dismissal, based on what I have said? sorry to take over your thread nicolee but felt it was relevant to both of us. netnut