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Advice on breaching my contract
Hi there I have been working for a company for past 9 years. I found a new job. My notice period is 8 weeks, but employer doesn't want to negotiate and let me go after 4 weeks. My new employer is also not willing to wait longer than 4 weeks. I am thinking about leaving after 4 weeks, after doing some researching I found…
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Advice Requested
Dear All, Advice would be appreciated! I am not a complete expert but here goes:- In 2016 I got a job. Senior, good salary but the hours were long and there was never enough staff to get the jobs done that were required. After 6 months, my probation was up yet my employer wanted to extend my probation. I threatened to…
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Redundancy and notice
Hi, hoping you can help. I was made redundant as of the 14th Dec, and before they announced that they told us they may or may not be able to salvage it on the 4th Dec. I have since made a claim for money owed through the redundancy payment service. But what I want to know is how much am I likely to receive for lack of…
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Is redundancy cover worth it?
I've been recently looking into taking out redundancy cover and need some advice please as to whether these policies would be of any benefit to me given the below:- 1. All the policies I've seen state that you have to be in possession of JSA to make a claim, I would not be eligible for contribution based JSA as my earnings…
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Advice please
Looking for advice. I was off ill from work and on going back to work I was put through a disciplinary then demoted based on a few events when ill. (mental illness ). I was signed off as severe depression and high anxiety can I be disciplined on this when I was signed off?. There was apparently a few issues since I came…
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Been told today company going bankrupt and no wages to be paid
My boss informed us that the company is bankrupt and that no one is going to be paid. I know (through unofficial channels) that he is ‘selling’ our clients to another company (we are a business travel company so they will take over the travel we have already booked and then any travel going forward) There isn’t an official…
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Company in liquidation and redundancy
My mother's workplace has closed and gone into liquidation. She was there for 15 years as an employee. Everyone was given two days' notice and my mother was on holiday at the time. She was informed by friends/word of mouth. She's 61 so too young to retire and draw state pension. What's the next best step? Can she claim…
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Reinstated and I don't want to be
I was made redundant a few weeks ago and I made an appeal against the terms of the redundancy. My employer had a meeting and used a HR Consultancy Team for the meeting. I did not attend but sent my reasons in writing. I was then reinstated and told to return to work on Monday by letter by my boss and told this was a final…
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Redundancy payment gov.uk figure
I've used the redundancy calculator on gov.uk and it's coming up with a slightly different amount to what my employers have told me I am entitled to. Is the gov.uk amount set in stone? I've been offered less than the online calculator using the same figures.
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Waiting on a pay rise to be processed and now redundancy
Back in early November I was advised I would be getting a pay rise. My manager had sign off for the pay rise from his boss and his boss's boss. We sent of the signed forms to HR on 7th November to then be told the company had put a hold on pay rises and was assured by higher up that I would get my pay rise back dated. Last…
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worried about appeal because father-in-law is employer
Hi, My husband left me on 10 November and the following morning I went to his father to say that it would be difficult to work with him now and father-in-law said, don't worry about it, you won't be and he handed me a redundancy letter, wages for 6 weeks and stat. redundancy. I'd been there 4 years. A week later he sent me…
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Redundancy/redeployment in NHS advice please
I am a Band 7 Allied Health Professional (Podiatrist) in the NHS. I have essentially been in the same job for 23 years climbing grades. The trust has changed several times in my employment. I am asking as my union rep is away and I want to have an idea where I stand. My department is going through a 70% cut and my post is…
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Dismissal / Redundancy / Non Renewal
Question, but first a little background. Work for a project nearing it's end. Will have been here four years when it finally finishes. The culmination of the project is a massive restructure of local public service providers. Suggestion seems to be that some teams are going to lose 25-35% of their workforce, due to a…
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Settlement agreement - not accceptable
I have a situation where I am being made redundant from work I have now been offered a fifth settlement agreement and although progress has been made we are now going around in circles I am disputing the holiday entitlement offered and more importantly the monetary offer for signing the agreement, giving up my rights.…
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What to do?
Hello, I have been told in confidence that the company I work for is closing in January, potentially at the end of the month, I think they are not sure when because if they tell the clients some will hold back on paying us. Everyone is being paid off and the other members of staff will be told in due course, I have worked…
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Custom and practice
Hello So after being made redundant in March this year myself and a few colleagues are in the final stages of a ET hearing. We where made redundant, however we was not paid an average of incentives earned over the last 12 months period. We have had no representation due to costs. The wording in our contract states that…
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Redundancy Figures Given But Company Now Changed Them
The company has been making people redundant for a couple of years now and everyone who has left in this way, worked their notice period of 3 months, but then got a payment in their final settlement of 12 weeks in lieu of notice in addition to their redundancy payment. Colleagues who will be made redundant early next year…
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Length of service - as and when work
I have recently found out I’m going to be made redundant and my employer has stated that I will only be entitled to two years worth of redundancy pay (the length of time I have been in my current full-time role). However prior to this role I worked for the same company on an ‘as and when’ contract for three years. There…
