Employment Law: What rights do these workers have?

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Employment Law: what rights do these workers have?

Sussex High school for Boys recently merged with a neighbouring school, Sussex

High School for Girls. The two schools had separate buildings located on the

same campus. The new school will be called Sussex Academy. The school is

part of a group which has schools in other English counties, the nearest of which

is 80 miles away in Dorset.

The new school management devised a new structure to remove unnecessary

duplication of posts. Staff members were selected for the remaining posts using

specified criteria, namely performance and length of service. This has affected

various staff in different ways.

Sarah, an English teacher who had been working for Sussex High School for Girls

for just over a year, was not selected for one of the new posts because Sam, an

English teacher from Sussex High school for Boys, was considered to have a

superior record in terms of performance.

Richard was a Deputy Head Teacher for Sussex High school for Boys who had

been with the school for over five years. Sussex Academy offered him

relocation to the school in Dorset.

Ahmed had worked as a part-time music teacher for the last seven years. He

was selected for redundancy because the other music teachers are full-time.

Marsha had worked for Sussex High School for Girls for 15 years. She was away

from work with illness when the redundancies were announced. When she

returned, she was told that she had been selected for redundancy and that her

last day of employment would be the end of the school year, in 8 weeks’ time.