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Redundancy payment if part time
There is a rumour going round my husbands firm ( its the delivery section of a big national newspaper group) that their delivery firm will be shut and all delivers contracted out. The Big national firm already downsized the local newspaper and moved it out of our city last year, and shut some other delivery firms they…
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Redundancy Query
Hi, I wonder if someone could possibly give me some advice with regards to my redundancy? In order to explain properly, I need to give you a bit of history!!! This is my second redundancy - I was made redundant in May last year from a Company that I had worked for 10 years. It was a large Company and they conducted…
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What would you do?
I am mulling over what to do and thought I would seek comments from people who don't know me. I have the opportunity to apply for Voluntary Red from my Company. ( I would get a decent redundancy of about 50k) I need to decide by 6th August. I have worked for Company for 35 years since school - am 52 now. I am in a pool of…
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Post redundancy
I will be made redundant end of April 2011 and want to do a straw poll of "what would you do if faced by....." I will be placed at the 40% income tax level (never earnt enough before to be in this position!) which will mean that for the rest of the financial year Apr 2011- Mar 2012 I will be a higher rate tax payer even if…
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Should I query my looming redundancy?
This must be the busiest board of the lot...depressing. My boss has told me that tomorrow, he'll be up to see me to put me on redeployment - boo. I've been through this every year for the last 3 yrs, and come out ok, but I've usually been 'pooled', and due to my record, have survived. So this time, I'm feeling a bit…
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Redundancy gardening leave
I am based in a customer factory which my company provides a product and service to. I have been told by the customer that they no longer want my companies product and that they want us out of the factory by the end of August. The new company that now has the contract to supply this customer has asked me to join their…
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Salary Sacrifice and lieu notice
I currently subscribe to my employers nursery voucher scheme through salary sacrifice. A few months ago, I was put "at risk" and given a redundancy package illustration. One of the items in the list was "lieu notice payment" which was a number of weeks of my post sacrificed salary to make up working a notice. No mention of…
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Should PILON be based on full weekly pay?
Hi - my sister is in the process of being made redundant after working for a company for 15 years. She's entitled to 12 weeks' notice, and has worked 5 of them. She's been told that the remaining 7 weeks pay in lieu of notice will be capped at £380 per week, same as her redundancy pay, even though her weekly wage is higher…
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Redundancy due to lack of work and costs BUT similar job advertised?
Hi there, I was made redundant at the begining of the month (walking away with 3 months notice pay and redundancy package over statutory) and I am still looking for work :( I have first hand witnessed the industry change and in turn my workload has dropped fairly significantly. Today I came across a job which is VERY…
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End of Fixed Term Contract Distress!!
Hi All, I am seeking advice if there is any going :) . My fixed term contract ends on 05 January 2011 so effectively I have five months remaining in employment. My managers all the way up the chain are doing everything they can in order for me to get an extension on the contract. I am a civil servant so the process is…
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TUPE/Administration
My husband was TUPE'd recently to continue on same job, just different employers. This was beginning of this month. The job he is supposed to continue working on has been put on hold indefinately (it has never even started with new employers). There is a very real risk that the Company who won the tender, because of an…
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temporary layoff advice
temporary layoff, 11th week on, still no word ,what to do now ,me and seven others where temporary laid off.on my last day at work 14th of may 2010,the boss asked for all of us to call back to yard to see him we where all told that we were temporary laid off and he was hoping some work would come in two weeks time ,he told…
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Redundancy Cancellation
Need to get some help on this one as I'm not sure where I stand I have been told I am being made redundant, currently 2 weeks into the 3 months notice period, i'm quite happy to be made redundant for various reasons, but the person i work with has potentially found another job and will be leaving, so can the company cancel…
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redundancy help
My old man was made redundancy last Friday, Just called in to the office and told his job was gone and that was it no notice job over Been back in today to sort eveything out, been working for 9 years and is 54 now, so he has worked out a rough figure etc he is owed holidays etc Was just told there is no money and he won't…
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redundancy
i was layed off temporarily on march 22nd i was told it would be be for about six weeks anyway six weeks turned into three months when i was made redundant and the company went into liquidation i was sent a letter from the company explaining how much money they owed me and also on the letter it said i was made redundant at…
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Some advice needed please
hi guys well this week at my work has been a nightmare, the company i work for are in dept and have been taken over by the bank we have a company thats making offers to buy the company but nothings been confirmed yet, we have to go in tomorrow to have a big meeting and it will probaly be are last day, but i have a few…
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Redundancy calculation and years service
Hi people, I have a query with regards to the years service I have worked and what my company want to pay me. Here is my situation: I am just about to be made redundant on the 6th of august, I started work on 9th august 2004. I work days Monday to Friday so my company have only offered me 5 years payout. My argument is…
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Here we go again!
After a year of being unemployed (2009) my hubby got an IT contract which started Feb this year. It was a rolling contract, which finishes at the end of August. He is working for the public sector and of course as we all know there are going to be severe cut-backs. Does anyone know what the private sector is like for IT…
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Redundancy due to "lack of funding" for non-funded posts.
Hi all, Looking like I might be made redundant anytime soon. Just wondered if anyone could help with this... My employer is stating its reason as a "lack of funding" as the excuse for making a number of us redundant but the "funds" they are citing that have been withdrawn are from a very specific stream of funding granted…
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JSA and self employment
I'm about to be made redundant and will be claiming JSA (contributions based only) but i also have a self employed job as a mystery shopper. I get offered jobs and some weeks i do 3 which takes 3 hours and other weeks none. Some jobs pay £5 fee, others pay nothing (free meal). When i do my tax return, i'd declare £5 less…
