-
Civil Service HMRC Redundancy
I have been employed by HMRC for the past 26 years, 19 years full time & 7 years part time. In the area where I work, several of the smaller offices have recently been told that they are to close within a couple of months with staff being made surplus or having to transfer to offices further afield. I am at present in an…
-
How to find if company is winding up for insolvency?
I hope this is right place for the question. For another I want to know if there is a way to ascertain if a company is in course of receivership or liquidation, and the state of its progress.
-
Schedule of Loss
I have submitted a claim for unfair dismissal to the ET and ACAS have been in contact with me to see if a settlement can be reached with my ex employer. Acas have asked if I could provide them with a Schedule of Loss but I'm representing myself and cannot find any examples doing a quick search on the internet. Does anyone…
-
So worried, what to do?
I was told on monday that the company i work for could be closing by the end of the week and there is no money to pay my wages this month either. The boss has seen a solicitor and is either going for personal banrupcy or company liquidation (i think thats right). This has thrown me into a complete panic, i am a sinlge mum…
-
How long is a year?
Sorry ... I wanted to delete this post but couldn't see a way of doing it. No 'delete' option when I edit the message.
-
Just got a letter...
Informing me that I need to meet with HR and my manager on Friday. Talking to my manager it seems that redundancy is pretty certain. This has come as a bit of a shock to be honest :( . I have worked for the company for almost 12 years (12 years on the 31st of the month). My question is how long, legally, does my company…
-
Notice pay
Hi hope you can advise me. I was made redundant at christmas after working for the same company for 13 years. The company went into liquidation and as of such couldnt pay redundancy so we had to claim it from the goverment. I got my redundancy in febuary. I signed on for jobseekers at the begining of january and was…
-
Company ceased trading but not in receivership
The company that my wife worked for has ceased trading. They have not gone into liquidation or receivership as yet. She has been paid wages up to date but now needs to know if she can claim redundancy from the govt. She has conflicting information.Some say that she can't claim until the company is in…
-
Query on wording of redundancy
Hi folks I am facing possible redundancy. The company that I work for has some good packages and we get the one that gives us the most money. One of the packages states the following: 2.5 times the statutory weeks entitlement times one weeks pay for each completed year of service. Can I interpret that as follows: 2.5 x 3…
-
Tax credit and redundancy pay
I was made redundant last March/April and have not worked since :( I am just trying to plan ahead a bit and I know I will have to renew my tax credit claim in the next month or so. I got an ex gratia payment of a few hundred quid from my company (and that was it) at the end of April of last year I believe there is some…
-
tax on redundancy pay
I'm about to take redundancy and my employer states my compensation payment will be made on 1/4/10. This falls in the curent tax year when I am liable for 40% tax on any payment over 30K (due to earnings accrued this FY). However, if it were paid in the new FY (during which I will have minimal earnings) it would only be…
-
A tricky one...
Here'a a tricky situation, just wondering if anyone knew the answer to this one. On Thursday the 4th March I was called into a meeting and advised that my role was to be made redundant 'soon, from say, March 20th', and given an illustration of the redundancy package I would receive if this was to happen (2 weeks…
-
When a companys in trouble are there any tell tail signs?
Our work has got slack now since February, management say "Oh there is work coming" but we've not seen any, and have been offered the chance to take days off if we want without pay of course, we are a manufacturing company and materials have ran out and no more has arrived, I think its going t*ts up but management keep…
-
How much redundancy pay?
In a couple of weeks I'll be finding out whether or not I'm going to be made redundant from my part time job I've been there for 2 and a half years I was doing about 22 hours per week, then last year I cut my hours down to just 18 per month. Will my redundancy pay be worked out using my new hours or will my previous hours…
-
Is this legal??
Hi there, Long story so I will try to shorten it as much as possible. Found out in November that our office is shutting down. Was told no decision was made about our jobs. There are 3 departments based at our office, 1 department is getting made redundant and the other is moving to a different office. They are all going at…
-
awarded in our favour - How can we get our money?
I hope that this is posted in the correct place. please feel free to move. My mother along with her colleague has recently been awarded £7000 (her friend £3000) at an employment tribuneral. they were dismissed without warninig and not paid redundancy money owed to them. this has taken over 12 months to conclude and has…
-
ReAct
Hi I am being made redundant (should be getting my 2 months notice this week) I am going to apply for the ReAct grant, they fund people that are made redundant to learn new skills to get back to work (Wales only I think) I have had one meeting with Careers Wales (they need to assist the application) but they are very slow!…
-
redundancy help ?!?
Hi, Can anyone help me with the situation I’m in? I have been told that the logistics team that I work with will be made redundant on the 31st October 2010 due to some work being transferred to the parent company in France. The company has given me details of the redundancy package and followed procedure correctly. My…
-
Redundancy - can i turn down these 'suitable' alternatives?
I work for a large organisation that has offices all over. The branch i work in is closing down though. We have been told that hopefully there will be no compulsory redundancies as we shall all be transferred or redeployed. The nearest office would be a 70 mile round trip for me thats in the job that i do..however there is…
-
Redundancy - what should I do with my old pension fund?
I was made redundant from my previous employer and I left them last month. I've already started a new full time job. I've just received a letter from my ex-employer, asking what I want to do with the pension fund that I've built up. It says that I can either let my benefits remain within the scheme, or I can transfer my…