Mates made redundant - i'm now doing their jobs

[BaZZaR]

I'm a correspondence clerk for a debt collection agency that also prints its own letters. I'm talking big printing machines that print, fold, put in envlopes and then frank them. My 2 mates were the only ones that worked up in the print room but they were made redundant in January because the printing was sent up north. After all this happened, they realised that not all the letters could be done there and some had to still be done inhouse. They are making me doing it-they showed me the basics and they expect me to do it. It's the same job as my mates had to do but they are saying its adhoc. they said it would be temp and would only be 1hr a day-ive been doing it since mid feb and it takes about 4hrs a day. They even realised they mucked up and paid 1 of my mates cash to still work for a while after being redundant. Is this allowed and where do i stand? cheers

[Dingoeater]

Technically they can ask you to do anything suitable to your grade of job. The mail-room job doesn't sound too different from the duties of a correspondence clerk that I'd expect. However if you can demonstrate that this work is effectively a demotion then you may well have a claim for constructive dismissal if they've done it without your agreement. I'd have a word with my local Citizen's Advice and see what they say.

[BaZZaR]

its a completely different job. I deal with debtor's queries they have with their debts, corresponding with them and our clients. The print room involves nothing more than setting printers up (sounds easy but there's 2 of them and they're bigger than my house!) and printing letters (well over 1000 a day) -it's all manual work whereas my real job is desk/computer based. My point is that they've made 2 people redundant (who both got paid more than me) and have gotten me to do the same job for free.The job that was redundant is still there and i'm doing it for free-so basically they are saving themselves �2500 a month. Can i just say no?