ASK HR: I believe my termination was malicious
Please advice me because I feel frustrated and psychological tortured by my former boss. I was terminated in 2014 in the name of restructuring, yet my position was given to someone else! PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
Your perspective could be right. There are however situations that may require an individual to be replaced. An example might be when the demands of a job evolve beyond the incumbent’s capacity.
You refer to a CBA: have you raised the matter with the union? You quote employment legislation: are you thinking about the legal option?
Q. Please advice me because I feel frustrated and psychological tortured by my former boss. I was terminated in 2014 in the name of restructuring, yet my position was given to someone else!
Please refer: temporary/seasonal employment as stipulated in the C.B.A and employment Act 2007, Article 41&47 (6) respectively.
It is apparent you are very upset about the experience of having had your employment terminated. The feeling that the restructuring process was used as a veil by your former boss to shroud the intention of terminating your services appears to have preserved your agony.
Businesses often have to deal with the need to remain agile and relevant to their customers, the course of which restructuring is sometimes a necessary part. Employment legislation provides guidelines concerning redundancies.
Where they exist, Collective Bargaining Agreements may also introduce additional expectations. Some organisations get the exercise right, others do not.
Without more information on your case, it would be presumptuous to state why your former position was filled after you left employment.
Your perspective could be right. There are however situations that may require an individual to be replaced. An example might be when the demands of a job evolve beyond the incumbent’s capacity.
You refer to a CBA: have you raised the matter with the union? You quote employment legislation: are you thinking about the legal option?
Unless you consider the proceeds of pursuing a legal case to far outweigh the time, emotional drain and money that you would need to invest, it is your lawyer, not your future career, that would ultimately benefit.
You must have learnt valuable lessons from your experience, possibly including what type of a boss you should not be in future.
You could also glean value from reflecting on the part you played in the quality of relationship you shared with your supervisor.
It is probably best to focus majority of your time and energy on developing yourself in order to succeed in your career.
It is in the future that the rest of your life lies, not the past.
