Hi I was wondering if this would be considered job misrepresentation:

I applied for an ***. Man. position at a local morgtage company & was told when I was offered the job that the position would be managing a team & developing their employee development program (because I had 4 yrs. of managment & employee develpment experience from my prior job). I left my other job based on the promise of doing a similar job w/ this mortgage company. I was also told that the person that was filling in for the position that I applied for was going to train me & go back to her prior position. Well its been 5 months & they have placed the person who was to train me as my manager & basically gave her all the duties I was promised I have repeatedly tried to confront the issue to no avail. Also the person who hired me at my year end reveiw told me to insist that I be put in a position to do the job that I was hired to do because my manager did not have the experience to do any employee development. My question is should I go to HR & ask for them to intervine or do I not have any recourse? I don't have a job offer in writing however I do have witnesses who know that I'm not doing what I was hired to do but they are no longer in my department & can't interfer.

I'm also a little confused because everything I have read on Job Misrepresentation also applies to misrepresenting the duties that you will be doing on a job but the advice on this board seems to not include that.
Thank you

The difference is in intent. If they knew all along that they never intended to put you in the position as advertised, that's misrepresentation. But if they honestly intended things to go as they advertised and then due to unforeseeable circumstances needed to make changes, that's not misrepresentation.

Thank you for your response, I think they originally intended for me to do the job, but when the person who was filling in complained they gave her the position. I wasn't even given a chance they made the decision while I was still in company training. So when I hit the floor I was at a loss as to why they had two people for the same position. I was told that they would be defining my role that was 5 mo. ago & I'm doing nothing basically but busy work. Should I complain to HR?
Thanks again for responding

That's up to you. If you think it would help, sure, go for it. But nothing you have posted suggests that any laws are being violated.