Job offer withdrawn because no job funding available anymore

[caribu141]

Dear all,

 

I had an interview for a team manager position in a learning difficulties service charity organization on the 9th of March 2015. The employer called me later in the day and offered me the position which i accepted. The employer sent me the conditional job letter offer.

 

The HR manager called and emailed me, before they received the references, saying that "unfortunately the job position was withdrawn because the funding to support the job was not more available."

 

If it can be useful , i am adding this information- I am aware that my current manager knows the new employer`s manager and that the two different organizations are based in the same borough.Should i be suspicious about my current manager as she might have spoken over the phone with the new employer`s manager before sending out the reference?

 

Now, how can be possible that after about 3 days that the references went out the job funding was not more available? Should HR have had the job funding approved before adverting the position on The Guardian? Can i take any legal action?

 

 

 

Any suggestion will be very much appreciated.

 

Charlie

[stevemLS]

In short, no, you have no legal recourse - a job offer can be withdrawn at any time for any reason.

 

In theory if you had accepted in writing and all the conditions in the offer had been fulfilled to the new employers satisfaction then a contract may have been formed. At best, though, you could recover a week's salary as damages for breach. Sorry.

[Atlas01]

In the current climate i find the employers response of "sorry cash has now gone" a perfectly reasonable and potentially honest retort, these things are happening on a daily basis.

 

Unless you can prove it is bullmerde you have no comeback, even then the only way to pursue a retracted job offer is on the grounds of disability or race discrimination claim.

[Good Sister]

I used to work as a PA for someone who had a lot of projects on the go, one of which was as a chairman for a charity organisation for disabled people. They used to have to place a tender every year which funded people's jobs. One year the manager submitted the tender late and the end result was restructuring the organisation and ultimately redundancies.

 

I don't know how it all works now but the organisation you were applying to work with sounds like a similar set-up and it could just be that for whatever reason they were unsuccessful in getting funding for this year and it has coincided with you about to join them.