from PT to laid off while co worker PT to fulltime - very odd??

[roosterga1]

Georgia .
I was given a mandatory decrease in hours from fulltime 40/week to parttime 20/week effective January 1m 2004 as was my co worker - he and I are the only employees in our IT department.
Today I was told due to budget, lack of work and since I could not get my job done effectively in the 20 hours the company would be outsourcing what I do. (this is at a rate 3x more per hour than they were paying me) Therfore I would be laid off due to lack of work. My coworker was told 24 hours prior to my knowledge of my lay off that he was being reinstated back to full time 40 hours/week. I was not given this option and he does not do the same job I do. He has been at the company only 2 years and I have been there 13 years. I am a married mother and he is a single male. I am not understanding how if I was unable to get my work done in the mandated maximum of 20 hrs/week and we have no money to spend how outsorcing is affective and how my co worker absorbed my 20 hours and is allowed to stay on full time.? Does this sound normal??

 

[Son of Slam]

Georgia .
I was given a mandatory decrease in hours from fulltime 40/week to parttime 20/week effective January 1m 2004 as was my co worker - he and I are the only employees in our IT department.
Today I was told due to budget, lack of work and since I could not get my job done effectively in the 20 hours the company would be outsourcing what I do. (this is at a rate 3x more per hour than they were paying me) Therfore I would be laid off due to lack of work. My coworker was told 24 hours prior to my knowledge of my lay off that he was being reinstated back to full time 40 hours/week. I was not given this option and he does not do the same job I do. He has been at the company only 2 years and I have been there 13 years. I am a married mother and he is a single male. I am not understanding how if I was unable to get my work done in the mandated maximum of 20 hrs/week and we have no money to spend how outsorcing is affective and how my co worker absorbed my 20 hours and is allowed to stay on full time.? Does this sound normal??

***You leave us to read between the lines, and that makes you look incompetent. Enjoy your unemployment checks and mother those children.

 

[mykoleary]

Sounds like your co-worker was either more ffieicent or was doing work that was more imporatnt and thus was focused on and created a larger work flow (with accompanying revenues to compensate)

So sorry...

 

[Beth3]

Since we don't know the employer's business case for outsourcing your responsibilities, we can only guess at the reasons. Things to consider are:

1. The cost of employing you is not just your salary. At a minimum, it's your salary plus the cost of benefits. That's your annual salary plus 50 - 60% more. If youir employer has rich benefit plans, it could be as much as double your salary.

2. Establishing an outsourcing relationship may give them access to additional skill sets they need but do not have in-house.

3. You and your co-worker did not have the same responsibilities. Presumably his skills are more necessary and/or they were unable to outsource those.

4. What you describe is fairly normal. We just can't add up all the cost figures to justify their decision because we aren't in the loop on the big picture.

If they selected you for layoff becasuse of your gender, that obviously is prohibited. But there are too many unknowns here to assume anyone's gender played a role.