pennijar
Well-Known Member
Hi gang,
As some of you know I have always had problems with my boss at the Charity I work for, this has been ongoing for nearly two years as you know I cut toe nails of the elderly.
Well this week myself and the other girl I work with were summoned to a meeting with all the big bosses that was on wednesday at 12.00 at 12.10 boss lady came down and told us that the meeting was possibly going to have to be cancelled, but we had to wait just in case it could go ahead, the reason for the cancellation was that the employment lawyer they had had found a problem. Anyway at 1330 boss lady came down again and handed us both a letter summoning us to another meeting today regarding our jobs.
To cut a very long story a little shorter we both went into the meeting this morning to be told that one of our jobs was going and that we had to re-apply for it and go through the whole process we went through when we started nearly 2 years ago. We both had exactly the same training from the NHS Podiatry service and as all we do is cut toe nails my other qualifications count for zilch as boss lady has told me many times in the past.
Now this is my dillema, I know full well that it is me they want to get rid of it always has been, when we were given the new job discription it states that part of the job is the home visits, ok you may say, but when I originally applied I told them verbally and in writing on my application form that I couldnt drive whereas my oppo could. Almost from the beginning of our employment it was decided by boss lady that my oppo would do all the home visits while I did all the admin work it has been this way now for well over 12 months it isn't that I couldn't do the local ones but these are all spread out in all directions of about a 30 mile radius there is no way I could get to a lot of them on the buses.
Also up until now we have got travelling expenses if we had to travel to the other office, now all that is stopped yet the new job description says two days in one place and two days in the other just for those I would lose over £24.00 per month.
Plus I am now over 50 and they were worried that I could get them on age discrimination, hence the reason they are doing it this way so that it looks fair when my oppo gets the job and I get the boot. I can prove via the office diaries how things up to now have worked.
Does anyone out there know anyone, or even failing that do you think I would have a case for a tribuneral.
Not only all that but if we do want to apply for the job the application has to be on the desk and read by the cheif Exec by 12.00 next tuesday. Strangely my oppo wouldn't have a problem with that if she wants to apply as she works in the same building whereas I work in a different town.
Sorry about the length of this but I really do need some good advice, personally I feel like saying stuff it and walking out, but then that is what they ultimately want me to do. Would you apply or not? under these circumstances.
Joan
As some of you know I have always had problems with my boss at the Charity I work for, this has been ongoing for nearly two years as you know I cut toe nails of the elderly.
Well this week myself and the other girl I work with were summoned to a meeting with all the big bosses that was on wednesday at 12.00 at 12.10 boss lady came down and told us that the meeting was possibly going to have to be cancelled, but we had to wait just in case it could go ahead, the reason for the cancellation was that the employment lawyer they had had found a problem. Anyway at 1330 boss lady came down again and handed us both a letter summoning us to another meeting today regarding our jobs.
To cut a very long story a little shorter we both went into the meeting this morning to be told that one of our jobs was going and that we had to re-apply for it and go through the whole process we went through when we started nearly 2 years ago. We both had exactly the same training from the NHS Podiatry service and as all we do is cut toe nails my other qualifications count for zilch as boss lady has told me many times in the past.
Now this is my dillema, I know full well that it is me they want to get rid of it always has been, when we were given the new job discription it states that part of the job is the home visits, ok you may say, but when I originally applied I told them verbally and in writing on my application form that I couldnt drive whereas my oppo could. Almost from the beginning of our employment it was decided by boss lady that my oppo would do all the home visits while I did all the admin work it has been this way now for well over 12 months it isn't that I couldn't do the local ones but these are all spread out in all directions of about a 30 mile radius there is no way I could get to a lot of them on the buses.
Also up until now we have got travelling expenses if we had to travel to the other office, now all that is stopped yet the new job description says two days in one place and two days in the other just for those I would lose over £24.00 per month.
Plus I am now over 50 and they were worried that I could get them on age discrimination, hence the reason they are doing it this way so that it looks fair when my oppo gets the job and I get the boot. I can prove via the office diaries how things up to now have worked.
Does anyone out there know anyone, or even failing that do you think I would have a case for a tribuneral.
Not only all that but if we do want to apply for the job the application has to be on the desk and read by the cheif Exec by 12.00 next tuesday. Strangely my oppo wouldn't have a problem with that if she wants to apply as she works in the same building whereas I work in a different town.
Sorry about the length of this but I really do need some good advice, personally I feel like saying stuff it and walking out, but then that is what they ultimately want me to do. Would you apply or not? under these circumstances.
Joan
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