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Enhamced redundancy
Hi, me & two of my colleagues are being made redundant and have today been given our statements. We are all getting Statuatory. The company is also paying a supplement on top. For two of us this supplement is based on one week for every year. For the other person the supplement is two weeks for every year. Is this fair?…
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Would this be wrong?
My DH was made redundant in Dec 08 and is still out of work. :mad: He heard on BBC Breakfast the other day that employers are looking unfavourably at people who have been out of work for 6+ months as they are assuming (wrongly) that they don't want to work and are not looking hard enough. DH has applied for over 100 jobs,…
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Redundancy
How many of you on here have been made redundant in the last 6 month, and how have you coped, and what impact has it had on your life?
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New baby and partner just made redundant, what now???
I am currently on maternity leave and planned not to go back to work yet due to childcare costs. however my partner who works for network rail and supposedly had a safe job has just been made redundant as of feb 2010. i am basically confused as to what to do next as to return to my job will bring in only a small wage and i…
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Tupe/Redundancy
Current employers have finally today advised us they are selling part of the business to a competitor, and some of the staff are to be Tuped over or take a redundancy package. Job role wise from what I can see, I am going from a non telephony job to a full time telephony job so am I right in thinking the job role is not a…
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another redundancy question please...
Hi All, Long story so here it goes..... where hubby works the work has dried up over the last couple of months, as it has at a lot of places. his empolyer kept telling them that they didn't want to make any redundancies and that they would weather the storm. A couple of weeks ago (end of October) the owner had a meeting…
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job relocation
Just been told that our company is to close and that they are intending to relocate to another site 40 miles away . I have been told there will be a job for me there or i can take voluntary redundancy. My question is am i entitled to a travel allowance if i take the job , to cover fuel costs . thankyou
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Redundancy/Liquidation combination leaves me confused
Hi everyone, First time posting, although I have been reading the forums for a while, just never worked up the courage to post anything until now. I've come for your advice, seeing as I'm unsure about being recently made redundant and what I should be doing and asking. I am going to be speaking with ACAS and the CAB…
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Is this legal?
Hi hope someone can help my husband works with 3 others for a company today they have been offered the opportunity to buy some of the equipment and then they can have the contracts on a self employed basis that they currently do for the company. Basically they will have no employees at the company but all the work the 4…
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advice needed
Hi, My parner has been told today (with her colleagues) that all of the jobs are being restructured and that her post amongst others is being closed. They are going to internally advertise new roles. The new roles are not really suitable for her (lesser pay and different type of work for ceryain posts and different…
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claiming council tax benefit with ISA backing interest only mortgage
Anyone know if it is OK to claim council tax benefit while having a current ISA [stocks and shares based] "backing" your interest only mortgage. The rules for benefis say that savings over £16000 disallows you to claim, but if you have taken out an ISA to "back" your interest only mortgage, how do you "prove" that this was…
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Tribunal Witness Statements
Hi, can anyone help with some advice in obtaining witness statement for a tribunal case. To support my claim for unfair dismissal/selection in a redundancy situation I need witness statements from a number of people I used to work with. If I write to these people requesting a statement they will be instructed by the…
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invited to disaplanary when on garden leave! urgent help needed
Hi Well this is going to be a long story but I have had what you could class as a very bad year! I have been employed with my current employer a recruitment agency for 4 years now and in that time I have worked very hard and been very success having gone from a trainee consultant to a corporate account manager winning…
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HELP! 30 day consultation period for single mum.
Hi everyone, need some advice. I am a single mum who works full time in a school as a teaching assistant. We have recently been told that there are going to be some redundancies and are entering the 30 day consultation period next week. What happens when the 30 days are up????? We have not been told what the selection…
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company in administration
if a company has recently gone into aministration and continues being run by a company appointed by the administrators what happens to holiday entitlement earned up until that point. it has been stipulated that any holiday pay that accrues subsequent to them being instated will be payable but does not stipulate what has…
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First Assist: Unjustified payout refusals
Does anyone have any experience with rejected claims for income protection / redundancy from First Assist (British Insurance). My full time role was made redundant in September and they are refusing to progress my claim due to a technicality involving a Ltd company directorship which was inactive throughout my employment.…
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Redundancy, Re-employment & SMP
Hi, Would really appreciate some adivce on my current situation... I'm currently employed however the company i work for will be going insolvent in the next couple months. There is another company run by the same people which we will be getting transfered into however i have just found out i am about 8 weeks pregnant. My…
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just to confirm ......
I was reading this on a few other threads but just wanted to confirm. If a person for example earned £500 per week and had 8 years service, his redundancy payment should be 8 x £380 and NOT 8 x £500 ... Is this correct? Also, what would be the first thing to do if the required notice was not given? If someone has 8 years…
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is this ok? please help?
In relation to my previous post (please help) sorry I cant put the link in as im new member I have decided to withdraw my application for a job that was advertised in the reshuffle. Tomorrow I intend to hand in the following letter Dear (insert name) I hereby give notice to you that I wish to withdraw my application for…
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Enhanced Redundancy
Hi, Can anyone explain this please and how it differs
