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Redundancy & redundancy planning

Archives for March 2012

Suitable alternative's ?
Hi just a quick question. I am currently being made redundant under TUPE though the new company do not agree this falls under TUPE. We were advised help would be provided to find suitable jobs internally, this never happened and I looked myself. There was a job in another department with a role I was confident I would be…
Redundancy Appeal Letter
Hi All I am wondering if anyone can offer any advice with writing an appeal letter following being made redundant Thanks in advance
Tax on redundancy payment
I have just been made redundant. I have been with the company for 1 year, 11 months and as such, am not entitled to any statutory redundancy pay. Being a decent bloke, my boss is going to give me a redundancy payment anyway. However, our accountant has told him that tax is still payable on the payment. I was under the…
some advice please
The company i work for has this afternoon issued redunno notices to 10 people 3 from one dept 7 from another so far my dept hasnt been issued with any althou i dont see that lasting. Not knowing the first thing about redunno can someone please give some basic info, basically firstly i presume the job postion is redundant…
Redundancy payout and state benefit entitlements
Here’s my problem I am a 56 yr old Uni lecturer earning £52K per annum, facing voluntary severance I am likely to get £30k redundancy payout, I have a pension pot min 33K – max 60K lump sum, min 750 max 920 monthly incomes and don’t know what to do. I have 6 months before I am “severed” so have time to do some financial…
Redundancy while in administration
I have just been made redundant from Game as we were one of the shops to close whilst in administration. Obviously this means I can only get statutory redundancy as I have worked there for just over three years. I've never been out of a job as such, so I don't know what my next steps are. I know I can claim JSA, but will…
A little Advice Please.
I've worked for the same Company since I left school (28 years ago). The Company has not got a lot of work & I can see it folding within the next 6 months. I have been looking on the CAB website, reference my entitlement to Redundancy & Notice, I am entitled to 12 weeks notice & the Redundancy payment is worked out on a…
Redundancy advice
hi our son has worked for a company for 7 years but was laid off 2 years ago.then was taken back after couple of weeks then he went into work on 2oth feb and was laid off from that date `the company might now be going into adminstration would he entitled to redundany pay thanks
impending retirment
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Advice - Redundancy - almost!
Hi I was recently asked to leave my work under a Compromise Agreement. I was offered a sum of money to leave with no questions asked. They advised me that they were cutting costs and that my role was no longer required, but as I didn't qualify for redundancy, or at least wouldn't get a lot of money, they offered me 3…
Some advice please
Hi, First of all apologies for the rambling, however, to get some advice I need to post all of the facts. I would also like to add that the stress of this is worrying me very much so if anyone can help with some advice/direction I would I have worked for a major Building Society for 13 years (10 of those as a Manager at a…
PPI available for 'Fixed Term' contract available?
Think I already know the aanswer to this one but my contract with my employer is renewed every 3 months as we are currently project managing a company 'in administration' and I was specifically taken on to assist in its project management However we realistically don't know when the project will end -is there any PPI (or…
Will they pay my full cover even though my mortgage payments have reduced?
I have a mortgage payment protection policy for 4 yrs, when i took it out my mortgage was £1400pm its now £400 due to interest rate reductions. In the event of a claim, which may happen this year, will they pay me the full amount or reduced amount? I have an interest only mortgage, so if they will only cover the reduced…
Redundant on 20 April - entitled to pro-rata annual leave?
I have accepted voluntary redundancy and have been told that my last day will be 20 April. Our leave year starts on 1 April. I thought that I would be able to pro-rata my annual leave entitlement up until the date I leave, which would have given me 2.66 days (not sure if I would have to round down to 2.5 or round up to 3).…
Father made redundant - starting business
Just looking for some advise for my father My father has been made redundant and he is looking at starting a business, he cant actively look into doing this as it will be working in direct competition to his ex employers and he has been put on gardening leave for 1 month He has however been speaking to some friends who own…
1:1 Interview with Personnel
Hi there, I have my one to one meeting with Human Resources in a couple of weeks and would like to be prepared for it. We are in 90 day consultation at the moment and I was TUPE'd over to work in the NHS a few years ago. Our options are Voluntary Redundancy or Redeployement if they can find us any jobs but this looks…
Redundant after 2mths
2mths into my new job and the management have concluded that the time isn't right for their planned expansion. I and 11 of my colleagues are made redundant. :( I had not yet received a Contract of Employment and on reviewing my Employment Offer now see that there are no details regarding Termination of Employment.…
Bullying and compromise agreement
Advice please. I was off work for 12 weeks last year with stress, went back to work and was let down with return to work support and job training. I also had a new manager, who is basically a foul mouthed lout. I had occasion to raise a grievance against him a few weeks ago, and elected to go to mediation, which has…
Unfair dismissal - determining one year of service
Hi, Does anybody know how the employement tribunal will determine whether someone has a year of service or not, to be able to raise an unfair dismissal claim? Basically, my notice had to be given in writing as per my contract, but was only given verbally. My employer then took a week to send a letter to confirm (standard,…
Using redundancy payment to pay off credit cards - any room to negotiate?
I'm being made redundant at the end of next week. :( I need my redundancy payment to last me as long as it possibly can, because who knows what the future may hold. It could pay off over 50% of my outstanding credit card debt, and I certainly intend on paying off some of the eye-watering APR accounts. All of the payments…

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