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Redundancy & redundancy planning

Archives for March 2011

Signed off with pregnancy illness during staffing review, how does this effect me??
Hi, I am currently a teacher, 24 weeks pregnant and my school is going through a staffing review. Basically I am having a lot of medical problems with the pregnancy and the extra stress of this process is making me extremely ill. After a very difficult meeting earlier this week I passed out in the staff car park. My blood…
Voluntary Redundancy Dilemma
I wondering whether to take vol. redundancy (VR) or not and would appreciate any advice. I'm being offered 7 months pay plus 3 months notice which I probably won't have to work so its quite good. Compulsory would be on the same terms though its not 100% guaranteed but they have said it will be. My job appears to be in the…
statutory maternity pay and voluntary redundancy
i have currently been employed by my employer for 11 years, i am due to start my maternity pay in 2 weeks, well statutory maternity pay anyway, which consists of 6 weeks 90% and 33 weeks at SMP level about £125 a week, voluntary redundancy has come up, if i was to accept this would my maternity pay be affected, i have…
redundancy questions
After hearing the news my OH is losing his job, my lovely mum has just phoned me and said she has been made redundant:( Just after a bit of help really - she has worked for the company for 8 years as a manager and they are part government funded. She had no idea the company was in trouble until yesterday when her staff…
Redundancy Tax Code Query
Hi, Can someone help please? I was made redundant 31/08/2010. Prior to that, I had a tax code of 602L, due to private healthcare benefits.(P11D shows benefit equates to £479) This tax code was stated on my P45 I claimed JSA until 25/02/11 and then received a new P45 with tax code 647L. My new payslip shows a tax code of…
Payment in Lieu - Tax question
I just recently had to take redundancy and have today received three months payment in lieu of notice. This money had been paid in my March pay and it has pushed me over the 40% tax bracket resulting in me paying way more tax then I thought I would. As I'm unlikely to be working in the next several months, do you know if I…
Employment status
I'm being made redundant as of tomorrow - have known about this for some time so used to the idea. Have now been approached to do some 'casual' work for the company. This would involve a payment per client seen as long as paperwork is correctly filled out. I did query whether this work would be on a basis of my being self…
Ideas to take to 'cost savings meeting'
Hello all, I work for a small charity and there is wind that we may be put under notice of redundancy (but we haven't yet been, and we may not be, depending on various pending grants which we may or may not receive). Anyhoo, I have been asked to attend a meeting tomorrow and to bring along some ideas of how we can cut…
Redundancy or Retirement?
My mum turns 65 in July and has been informed by her workplace that they will retire her off. In the mean time at the place she works at, most people will be getting made redundant in the next 2-3 months. By June/July, she reckons there won't be any work for her to do anyway. (That's fact.) So is this a case of her…
sacked or made redundant whilst pregnant
my wife currently 17 weeks pregnant. She is been working for 1 year for her employer. As from her experiences for the last year with her employer he employee new staff and sack them just before they finish one year. my wife works as sales staff and she is from Romania with marriage visa in the UK. We are really worried…
Last pay slip and tax
I've just had my last payslip and will be redundant as of tomorrow. My pay for this month consists of my normal basic pay as well as 12 weeks worth of pay in lieu of notice. So it's quite a large amount. My question is, will the tax on this be correct or should I be trying to reclaim some of it? I worked in a big…
Confused....
ok, was hoping someone could help if poss. my husband worked for a company for three months last year, two days before xmas they sent everyone home and said the company had gone into liquidation and no one would be paid. He is owed £1500, he got a letter recently saying that the company he worked for hadnt gone into…
Redundancy looming - Can I have pension contributions refunded?
I am currently facing redundancy, and because of the current payments schedule, am not due to receive a large amount of payout. However. I have been paying into the Local Govt Pension Scheme for approx 8 years, and wonder if it is possible to "take" this money as part of the redundancy package, be it to reinvest, or just…
Advice please
Hi all, Need to email my bosses regarding my current situation but wanted to see if anyone could tell me where I stand so that I have a better understanding when I email them. I was employed a few years ago on an annual contract, that was then renewed each year. I have now been there for 3 years, so have same redundancy…
What do I do
I was made redundant 4 weeks ago. I cry all the time, will someone tell me how to be positive. I loved my job with a passion. I am £15,000 in debt. I no longer know what to do.
Disciplinary...2 Weeks Later...Redundancy
Hi all, appreciate it if someone could offer some advice here. I was recently involved in a disciplinary procedure at work, I disagreed with their argument based on the fact it was not supported by any evidence at all and just someone else's word (hearsay) against mine, I appealed the decision and am yet to hear from them.…
6 years in the job
Hi all, I have question that I need someone to give me advice on Plse.:( I have worked with the same company for 6 years 4 mths. In 2007 I was selected for redundancy and was successful in keeping my role. I was promoted to a senior just before this happened, but did not sign a new contract like I had done when I first…
Defining continuous service
Hi there, does anyone have any views on this scenario: I have been working for my current employers for 12 years. Recently a new opportunity has come up within a different department of the same organisation but it comes with a fixed term contract for 2 years (I am currently on a permanent contract). Clearly, there are a…
Redundancy, iva and income support
Hello, I've an IVA of £22k, my redundancy package is £24k. If i pay IVA off can i still claim income support? (child under 7, am on a career break). Money will go in bank then out to pay IVA so will be in bank for a day or so. Do i need to tell benefit office? Thanks
Funded computer training for people at risk of redundancy in Hertfordshire
No one can predict the future, so it's always good to know what help and advice is available to you or people you know. In the current economic climate, one of the biggest things affecting some of us is the risk of redundancy. But there's help at hand. Here at Pitman Training Stevenage, funding and support for people…

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