Contract Of Employment

[alanarmo]

Can anyone help me with this question? I have been employed as a construction manager/bricklaying tutor by a private training organisation for almost 2 years now. During the past year, I have been left by my m.d. and my area manager to take full managerial roles of the construction centre. Now that we have moved to larger premises, I am only tutoring in brickwork, and i have had my managerial roles taken from me. I have told my m.d. that i fell totaly demoted and for no reason. Am i right in believing that if I have held the role of full manager for 13 weeks or more, He was obliged to change my contract of employment? Can anybody give me some solid advice please?

[voltr4m4x]

The facts I need to establish before I can provide you with a genuine answer are these:

1. When you were employed in the managerial roles at your place of employment, were you paid accordingly ?

2. Since your managerial role has diminished, has your pay been reduced as a result ?

3. Did you sign a Contract with your employer with which you assumed your managerial role in the first place ?

As soon as you provide me with definite answers to the above questions I may be able to be in a position to provide you with the necessary advice.,

[alanarmo]

1/ I was paid as a construction manager/ bricklaying tutor.

The construction manager in our other college was on the same pay as me, doing only the one role.

2/ My pay hasn't been reduced. The only thing reduced is morale of myself and my team, who's backing I have 100%

3/ yes I did sign a contract. He told me verbaly on many occasions to which I have witnesses, that my role would become fully office based, and, I would be given a bricklaying tutor so that the workload could be distributed.

[voltr4m4x]

In the circumstances which you now describe I have to advise that your employer is within his rights to act as he has done.

It is not within his remit to ensure that his staff are entirely "happy" 24/7; he is simply there to run a business to the maximum profit, and to ensure his staff are paid according to their terms of contract of employment.

[alanarmo]

Maybe I haven't given enough information here. It would take pages to explain the situation fully. A.C.A.S. gave me a very different answer when I explained the situation. I just thought that I could get some advice from here, and not have to spend time on the telephone to them every spare moment. Thanks for your reply all the same.

[alanarmo]

In reply to voltr4m4x, I am well aware of my m.ds remit. I too am motivated by money. I am also motivated by sucess in my role, weather I am "happy" as you put it, or not.

I only want the position and job role that I was told I was to have, and to have the piece of mind that I am not going in a backwards direction.

Again, thank you very much for your reply.