Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?
My company, which works for the NHS, recently changed owners and the Tupe regulations governing employee transfers applied. Under these, our jobs have transferred over to the new company and we were told our employment terms and conditions will remain the same. But it’s all been a long drawn out process to get to this stage, with endless union negotiations and whatever the regulations say, we don’t know what this new company will be like to work for.
Understandably it has caused a lot of us to be stressed with learning new protocols, worrying about possible redundancies and coping with a different workload.
More importantly, the atmosphere has completely changed. We were a relaxed happy team working in a caring profession. Now everyone appears touchy and withdrawn, and some of my fellow workers don’t even look at you when talking. It makes me sad to see such a change and don’t know how to make things better.
I have been around a long time and cannot understand why people are acting like this.
Do you need advice on a work issue? For Jeremy’s and readers’ help, send a brief email to dear.jeremy@theguardian.com. Please note that he is unable to answer questions of a legal nature or to reply personally.
