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Laid off but no letter
I agreed to take voluntary redundancy with my boss, he has very quickly pushed it through with no agreement signed and no weeks notice given (employed for 12 years so should have had 12 weeks notice, but not bothered about notice) friday my boss paid me my week in lieu and 5.67 acrued days holiday pay, and verbally told me…
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Redundant out of the blue. Help / advice please
I work for a smallish engineering company as a buyer, on Thursday directly after lunch the M.D & production director asked me into the conference room, they said that due to the lack of work or prospects of new work arriving, they then asked me to think of anything else I could take on to to warrant my continued employment…
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Redundant while on Maternity Leave - advice requested
Hi I'm currently on maternity leave and was planning to return to work 13 June. Unfortunately the company I work for has gone into Administration and I have not received my SMP for the last month. I called the HMRC who advised I need to get an SMP1 form from my company to take to the Benefits office to claim any future…
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Voluntary redundancy
Hi, i left my place of work after 22 years taking voluntary redundancy, the company called it voluntary exit package where we got 3 weeks pay for each year we did, i got £30,000 tax free and $16325 severance pay which is taxed. The severance pay was paid into my bank on the 14/4/2011 (week 2 of new tax year) but have been…
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Any Legal Eagles on - DPA
Does anybody know what the principal difference is in a schedule in an act of legislation from the main body of the act? I'm reading the Data Protection Act atm and am wondering, can schedules be quoted to prove liability in respect of breach of the dpa?
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Fat Lady Sings
I am being made redundant and have 1mths notice. I assume that I will receive written confirmation of this and that my notice will begin from the date of that letter. However, I started work here on 03/06/09 and my employement will likely cease 31/05/11 - will that constitute 2 yrs continuous employment or does the 3 day…
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Redundant from Part-Time 21 hour job -JSA
I have been made redundant from my 21 hour per week job, am I entitled to contribution based JSA whilst I look for a new part-time role? Thanks
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I resigned without notice - now ex-employer has reinstated and monitors my email!!!
I resigned without notice on 11th April on the grounds of constructive dismissal for repudiatory breach of contract. Having been the commercial director of the company, I was also the administrator on the company's Microsoft BPOS cloud email account. I had told my MD that he has 24 hours to take over the various services…
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Claiming Redundancy from Goverment
The company i worked for offically went into liquidation yesterday and all us employees where made redundant, we also have not been paid for this months work. I have sent the relevent forms to the liquadators to claim for my wages and redundancy and have been advised that this will be paid by the goverment as the company…
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Redundancy payment
Hi I want to know if i have a case regarding my redundancy pay. The company i worked for is closing down in August this year, they told me my job was being made redundant in august, but with my mam being serously ill i could have vol redundancy and finish in may. But just after recieving my letter to say when i would…
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NHS merger / possible downgrade / redundancy
Hi All. I am a band 7 NHS worker with almost 30 years service. The Trust I work for and a neighbouring trust are planning a merger scheduled for 2013. Before this happens however my department and the corresponding department from the neighbouring trust will begin to operate as one unit. April 2012 is the target date.…
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Redundancy and business start up
In the Forces at present, will probably become redundant Mar 12. I am attending a retraining course in Feb 12 that will allow me to set up a new business. Can I claim the cost of the course back agaist by tax liability from the PAYE from the MOD ?
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Redundant but 12 month contract
Hi all, ..I find my self being made redundant via "liquidation". I had (have) a 12 month notice claus in my contract, (ie the company have to give me 12 months, and likewise I had to give the Company 12 months notice).As the Company is being liquidated do I have a claim against the liquidateor for 12 months pay?....is it…
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Redundancy Pregnany Jobseekers allowance Mortgage Protection Policy
Hello everyone I'm new here , and desperately need some advice :( . We recently bought our first house and moved in at the beggining of March, and on the day of completion I took out a mortgage protection policy . I've held this for over a month now , and can't claim make a claim in 120 days, and to be eligible I need to…
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Redundancy - unfair?
Hi All, I would really appreciate any advice anyone has to offer. This week, I was given notice of redundancy, a business case for change (in restructuring my department) and the new role profile replacing my role. In essence, I have been told that the biggest reasons for my role being 'deleted' are that (a) they would be…
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Insolvency redundancy questions
I've just been made redundant due to company going into insolvency. My first thought is that I will try to go self-employed - the area I work in is very specialist so general job hunt is looking gloomy. I understand I can claim insolvency payment for redundancy and possibly some for "in lieu of notice" (not sure on this…
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Redundancy or Not - Advice please
Hi there My employer has gone through looking at job roles etc and have decided to restructure and my job will be going. We will either be offered alternative roles or have to apply for new roles, however, all of these roles are at a lower salary than I am currently on. The company keeps repeating there will be no…
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Redundancy versus benefits
I am currently on a career break and have applied for voluntary redundancy. The pay off package is excellent and tax free, we are planning to pay off debt if I'm lucky enough to get it which would be such a release after battling for years with it. However starting to panic as I hadn't looked into whether it would affect…
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Redundancy - coming back as a freelance
I'm now at the start of my 12 weeks redundancy notice. My manager is now asking me to come back as a freelancer doing some project work within my team. I'm not going to bite the hand that feeds. I work in the public sector and have a clause that I cannot be reemployed for a month and a day - does that include freelance…
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Voluntary Rendundancy + Notice !
Hi to All, My partner is a teacher, the school where they work is merging and 1 teacher from their department needs to be made redundant. They have been offered voluntary redundancy at 2 weeks per year of service, she has worked their for 20 years. She has put herself forward for voluntary redundancy and she is the only…
