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Redundancy & redundancy planning

Archives for August 2015

Time Out After Redundancy
Hi all, long time lurker on the boards but brand new poster! Some advice from the experts please. I have been made redundant, having finished up on Friday when my place of work closed. The timing of it has more or less coincided with my wife giving birth to our second child (she's 4 weeks old now) and, since I found out…
Unfair redundancy?
Hello, I'm working for the company almost 4 years as one of the managers. Our director has changed 1 month ago. Now, i received information from my colleagues that employer want to make me redundant. i'm suspecting they want to pass my duties to another person under different job title. Will this redundancy be fair? Thanks
TUPE Question - Change In Working Conditions
Hi, Soon I am due to change employer under the TUPE agreement. The problem I have is my new employer wants to reduce my hours. I have always been contracted to 21 hours per week, but for the last two years have worked 29 hours per week. The shifts that I work have always been the same days and we work off a monthly rota.…
TUPE and change of location
This is going to be a long one so please bear with me but I am trying to support a friend who is about to give up on her (possible) right to redundancy. Let me explain...... There are 5 of us working for a national charity - whilst employed by the charity, we operate a contracted service and that service ends on 30…
Question over notice/redundancy payments
Hi there. I have worked for me current employer for over 8 years and it's been advised I am possibly going to be made redundant (subject to consultation etc). I have a family and young child so am trying to work out what type of payout I could end up with. My understating is currently:- - there is a 2 week consultation…
Made Redundant Question about Contribution based JSA
Basically i have only just started claiming jsa ( i havent actually had a payment yet ). After my mum died myself and my 2 sisters were left a third each of her house which we rent out. My share is £177 a month. I never even thought about it to be honest as when i did all the forms online and sat down in front of the…
Question re redundancy and maternity pay (calculation of the base pay)
Hi, I have recently been made redundant just 2 weeks short of start of my maternity leave. I have now been given the company compensation schedule and I have a question about how they have calculated my weekly base pay... My Base Salary is £25,550 so my weekly base pay is £491.35 (25,550/52=491.35) But to calculate my…
Am I entitled to redundancy?
I have worked for the same company for 4 years. I have 'Written Statement of Employment" that says I am expected to work up to 40 hours a week which I suppose is another way of saying it's a zero hours contract(?) I have been promoted during this time and am part of the key senior / management team but still have an hourly…
Not allowed to claim unpaid wages after redundancy
Hello, I have recently been made redundant - my employer has gone into liquidation. I worked right up until the end and the company owes me approximately six weeks wages. I had no idea the company was going to be wound up - it happened very suddenly. I filled in an RP1 and it's going through the government redundancy…
Another TUPE issue
My friend is a manager in a school which is being taken over by another school. She was not formally considered for another similar role - the school that is taking over already has someone. She was only offered lesser positions. She would be ok to go with her redundancy money, but they want her to finish off some work for…
Maternity and Redundancy
Hi all I am looking for some advice please. I started my current job on 2nd March 2015 and then just over a month later I found out I was pregnant (we were expecting it to take a few months because it took 7 months to fall pregnant last time (ended in miscarriage) so we weren't expecting to fall so quickly). I work in a…
Made redundant ... Starting new job
I will be made redundant on the 30th of this month, I've had my consultancy and know my redundancy package but not sure exactly how it works. I get paid last Friday of every month currently and that's a couple of days before I finish with my current employer. will I get my redundancy pay in with my final pay and my p45 or…
Risk of Redunancy - Help
Dear all Me and the wife was given a letter of 'Risk of redundancy' from work (we both work at the same company). I have been there for 12 years and the wife 10. We have a 'consultation' meeting bascially pleeing why they should keep us on. A second meeting will take place with a decision will go in our favour or not. The…
PILON and pension benefits
I am entitled to 6 months PILON if I am somehow forced out on poor performance from my job. If that were to happen would it in effect be the same as if I continued to work for the company for a further 6 months - so would I have a further 6 months of pension benefits ? Or could I insist on just being paid for a further 6…
Share investments & benefits
Hi all, Seeking some advice I've been suffering from a chronic illness of which there is no cure. As a result of this I accepted a redundancy package in March this year. The settlement was of a sum over the government threshold of £16k savings etc. So as the money is now getting burned up, I'm well below the threshold…
Change of location and contract
I require some assistance on employment for my sister. They currently work in a retail outlet and have been for the past 11 years, the opening hours are fixed 9-6 Monday to Fridays, 9-5 Saturday and 11-5 Sunday, which is also stated on their contract. Due to a new shopping complex opening in the next month within a mile…
Payment in Lieu of notice and JSA
Please can you confirm that my payment in lieu of notice will not be affected by not claiming JSA?
Redundancy Notice period.
On a month`s notice,to be made redundant,would going sick delay the inevitable? Would I still get company sick pay? Thanks in advance.
Interviewing after job terminated
I was dismissed after 9 months at my last job during an extended notice period (no need to go into details here, but it was despite strong performance, and rather due to communication, improper review, lack of assistance, ... and there is also a high staff turnover in the company). If at the interview I would say that the…
Redundancy + PILON
Hi, I'm being made redundant for the first time as my company is closing our site and i am slightly confused by the redundancy calculation. My T&C's state that I will receive one months salary for every year I have worked for them, capped at 15 years. Since I have worked 14 years then I thought that i would not need to be…

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