Richard

I am certain it will be handled by the book to cover the collective council ass. My worry is the fact that I will not be able to find out how my supporting statement was weighted against others. What I do know is that most band 3 posts are going away and there are too many band 3 and band 2 people for the number of FTE posts left. Also impossible to find out if someone was chosen over me because it was cheaper to keep them than to keep me.

I will be at the top of my pay band in April. It would be cheaper for the council to make me redundant than to pay me protected pay for 18 months.

At my age and due to disability I am unlikely to get another job outside the council. If the council offers me a job where I must travel long distances by public transport I don't think I will be able to physically cope. So if I do not accept whatever they offer me, which could be reduced or shift hours and far away from where I now live and work, then I have sacked myself and they pay me nothing. Not even redundancy. This is causing me a lot of stress.

I am not the type to go off work with stress. I am not built that way. But I am home from work yesterday and today with unmanageable pain. I am working from home so not taking sick days. I also regularly carry over more earned flexi time than I can technically take per pay period. So the council is getting extra hours of work out of me. This cannot be counted in my favour though.

The whole ordeal is making me feel wretched.