^^^this^^^ comes to mind when people post positions, too.It would help if people also posted what locations they are looking to work in
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Anything entry level that's remote in the business support side/customer support/admin/etc? Son has some IT qualifications and general remote support customer service for various government schemes and for sky so used various custom systems and the standard suite.
Well he hadn't been on holiday in a while but that seems a little mean to suggest.
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I've been consulted. And assessed. There's no more money or room for myself and a colleague at the Local Authority where we work, so we're both surplus and a new structure will come into place in October. Ho Hum. VR is an option but feels like it ain't enough. Too young to have my pension made up
thanks for this
most local authorities have a rule that people who are 'at risk' will be given priority interviews for any vacancies that come up (sometimes if there's a lot of redundancies going on, then they will sometimes put jobs round internally before advertising publicly) - it can be of limited use if you're in a specialised line of work, although some people - and that includes hiring managers - are better than others at thinking about transferrable skills / experience.
there may also be a process about offering training to help people in to alternative roles.
i don't know if it still exists, but there also used to be a rule where if you got re-deployed in to a lower grade job, you'd keep your existing pay (in pounds rather than grade) for x amount of time, or until your new pay grade caught up with it.
and think you're entitled to 'reasonable' time off for interviews for other jobs while you're under notice.
a local authority will almost certainly have a redundancy / redeployment process, but they will vary a bit from one authority to another. you ought to be able to get hold of a copy, and union rep should know where to find it (and if local rep isn't sure, then they ought to refer you to or seek help from branch office or whatever.)
(all of the above subject to the disclaimer that it's a while since i was a UNISON rep who had anything to do with this sort of thing)
hope there's some good news somewhere soon.
Anyway - reeling a bit but not surprised. Dunno about keeping the £££ if redeployed into a lower grade- haven't heard that before, worth asking about, though 
- none of this has been used as grounds for selection for redundancy, has it?
Thanks againhmm. i'm a bit fuzzy on that.
is there still a financial advantage to taking voluntary rather than compulsory redundancy? (i terms of either enhanced redundancy pay and / or pension?)
just a thought on voluntary redundancy - if you've got any sort of payment / mortgage protection insurance, it might exclude voluntary redundancy - some do.
and may also be worth finding out what the position with job seekers allowance is - last time i enquired, they didn't class VR to be the same as resigning (which can disqualify you from the dole) on the basis that someone was going to leave anyway. but that must have been 20 years or so back. (does anyone else know?)
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yes - may as well. about 10 years ago, i had a brief temp job at a civil service office that was in the process of being closed down (too many people had quit too soon so they took some temps on, which suited me at the time) and they had NCS in to the place running a few sessions on work time. are your current employers talking to NCS?
