Redundancy & redundancy planning

Archives for March 2010

Help with Grievance
I am about to put in a greivance actually requesting a redundnancy payment. I know this is not the norm!, but I feel my employer has tried to avoid making a payment due to redundancy, as I have 27 years service. I want to word the greivance correctly, and wondered if there is a statutory right to a redundancy payment that…
quit or dismissed and last pay advice
i currently work for local goverment, and have been suspended on full pay since 19th Feb, i was accused of removing a toner cartridge which yes i hold my hands up to this and it was my every intention of replacing it, this mater has been sent to the police but as of yet i have not heard a word from them and according to a…
Redundancy vs Medical Dismissal Payments
Hi I'm looking for advice. I have entirely legitimately been off work sick for 15 months. My employer has been very understanding, and I have no problem with them. I am protected by the DDA, but within that context, my employer has fulfilled every obligation they have. They have intimated very plainly that, having followed…
A Tricky One part 2
Hi all, More advice needed I'm afraid, 1st part here :http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2337199 In summary, on March 4th I was told that my job was to be made redundant effective from March 20th. I was given details of another role within the business to apply for, which I did. First interview for this…
NHS Redundancy letter
I have received an estimate of benefits letter as I am due to be made redundant on 30 June 2010. I will be 55 in April 2011 and am a special case so can retire then with no reduction in pension benefits. I have been given 3 options - firstly straight redundancy pay. Second- pension benefits and reduced redundancy pay, and…
Work being moved to India advice please
Hi I work for an I.T. outsourcing company which I was TUPE transferred into in 2003 . Since the TUPE I have continued to work in the same job but for the new employers. The I.T. contract has recently been re-negotiated and has resulted in my work being offshored to the Indian branch of the company . The company has a…
redundancy help - TUPE
Afternoon all, Just after a bit of advice really, never been made redundant before. I have worked for a company for 20 years, but 6 years ago they closed one company ‘X’ and opened another ‘Y’, I got a P45 from X but didn’t re-apply for my job with Y, it just transferred over, same pay, same salary, same holidays, same…
Help. National insurance no record of payments and hence no dole money
Hi On Dec 3rd 2009 the company went into administration. I am owed 21 days holiday and 5 days pay.i am reasonably confident of getting this as you get it from some sort of Natiotional insurance fund as long as you earn less than £380 a week. More importantly, although i have paid tax and NI contributions for the tax year…
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…
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.
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…
Restructuring....job available but less money
my mum has been told that after a restructure where she works her current job is no longer necessary. she has been told that there will be a job available, but it will be lower wage (about 4k a year). can companies do that?? just seems totally absurd that an employer can one day turn around and remove somebodies job so…
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.
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…
Amount of Tax (deductions) on Redundancy Pay
I am being made redundant sometime in May, and am trying to calculate my Redundancy payout. What is the Percentage of Tax that I will pay on my Redundancy payment? I am not a high earner, so I am not in the "SuperTax" bracket, but would like to know what the Tax Rate will be. Also, will there be any other stoppages, I.E.…
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…
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…
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…

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