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Redundancy & redundancy planning

Archives for June 2011

NHS redundancy rules. Help
I work for the NHS and am now on redundancy notice. I have been made a conditional offer of a new NHS post with a different trust. (18 month fixed term) My current Trust is saying that as I have been offered another NHS job within 4 weeks of my end date 06/07/2011 I am not entitled to my 5 months redundancy pay from my…
Compromise Agreement + Redundancy
Looking for a little advice of some of you experts - any opinions gratefully received! Or a virtual slap and told to stop moaning! In a nutshell - feeling really pushed out of job (can explain more if required) and making myself ill by being there so I was thinking about resigning. HR have said that I can be made redundant…
Help - advice needed "aggressive" lawyer mailed me seeking a Costs Order
Hi I am currently fighting an unfair dismissal case and having seen my former employer's "voluntary disclosure", I have made a counter request seeking to see further documents. I have requested documents that are referred to in the bundle, or show examples of the role I carried out and in my opinion are relevant to the…
Redundancy
It looks like I am to be made redundant, I have only been in the job for 4 months and was brought in as an Operations Director to set up a Company within a Company, unfortunately things haven't panned out the way I expected, ie no investment into the Company and no support either, therefore they have made no money and can…
Advice needed re a director's redundancy.
I'm a co-director and joint shareholder of a small company. The recent economic climate has weighed heavily on my fellow director and he has been quite stressed and unwell with the whole thing. He wishes to take, in effect, early retirement from the business and pursue lighter, more part-time and less stressful work…
Consultation Period
In consultation periods, can phase two begin before phase 1 has finished? Or does phase 1 have to be complete before phase 2 can start?
Interview delays and clashes-what to do?
Hello I wonder if omeone has been in this situation before. I am drafted for redundancy and I have been applying for a lot of jobs internally. So far I have done four interviews, but no luck, although I got very good feedback. Now I am booked for one on Wednesday and an assessment for another position next week: this last…
Redundancy and claiming on my income protection insurance
Please can someone advise me I have been recently made redundant and have an insurace cover on my mortgage, but last year got a buy to let mortgage rented out the property the mortgage protection is on living in the new property am i eligble to claim as i am not living there?
Civil Service partial retirement
I am in my mid 50s and in the last year or so our dept has been offering early retirement as a means of reducing their costs. These schemes have allowed early payment of full accrued pension without actuarial reduction (either directly under old compensation rules or, under the new voluntary exit terms, by offsetting the…
Reduce work hours while increasing hours elsewhere...
Hey all, New to the forums, some help and advice on the following would be great. Im also finding it hard to locate legislation to back up/ or quote to my employers. Bascially I work for a small employer, total of 7 employees. Two or three years ago a colleague went on maternity leave with the intention of only coming back…
Payment in lieu or going into redeployment pool?
Hi I am currently "at risk" my post has been deleted and I have been ring-fenced to apply for a newly created "merged" post at a higher grade with one other candidate. Interview is early July... I have income protection insurance. I am due to sell my house in August and due to the uncertainty have decided to go into rented…
Retracting voluntary redundancy application
Two weeks ago I put in my application for enhanced redundancy or voluntary redundancy in reality. I am entitled to £21,500. However, I have since been reconsidering my decision. The job market at the moment is pretty abysmal. I am 51 and although I have many years experience in customer service, my company has not provided…
Definition of Years of Service
Could anyone help with this question about years of service in the following example? If an Employee worked at company for 5 years as a contractor. Then was taken on as an employee for the same company doing exactly the same job as before for a further 5 years. If redundancy was calculated would they have 5 years of…
Please help!!
Hi I knew that my job was coming up for review soon, we have always been told it would be 'our' review. Got pulled in today, and told I am the only one in the office not in that review, I will be in the second part of the review which will start once thiers has finished. When I asked why they couldnt really tell me, I am…
Redundancy and tax credits
hi, just been told today am being made redundant on the 15th July do I tell the tax credits people housing benefit now or do I wait until the redundancy date?? Thankyou
TUPE Redundancy Rights
My daughter was recently made redundant from her job which she had been working from April 2010-May 2011...The company she worked for originally, was take over a few months back, in what I believe was a Tupe takeover as their wages, holidays etc..remained the same. The company used my daughters sick days, right back to…
Help Redundancy
Hi, A few months ago it was decided by management that I would be made redundant. They have recently interviewed new people for my job. The management have realised that it will cost them a lot of money in pension and redundancy money around £30,000 to get rid of me and are now panicking and trying to re-deploy me…
Unpaid Redundancy Compensation
Hi, My former employer informed me in writing that my redundancy compensation would be paid no later than the 1st April, to date it has still not been paid. Despite numerous emails and phone calls I'm still looking at another 10 working days before the money is paid. In the meantime, I have been unable to pay all the bills…
Is this a fair redundancy - advice needed for meeting this week
Hello Not sure if anyone can help me but on return from maternity leave a few years ago I returned to work 4 days a week and received a new contract with 4/5’s of my original salary. Two years later I was told that due to ‘business reasons’ my 4 day a week role would be made redundant and the new role now requires 40 hours…
working my notice from an "unreasonable travelling" distance
My employer has announced that the whole department is being relocated and our consultation period is coming to an end. We've been offered a position in a different town but for me and a colleague the company accept the travelling distance would be "unreasonable" and that we would be offered redundancy if we declined the…

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