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Civves and an MOD redundancy - an unusual read.....
5 civilian personnel in work are employed by a civilian company contracted to the MOD. The 5 of us are in Lue of soldiers (and cheaper), but the Squadron is disbanding. The solders are being posted away and the 5 civvies have been given verbal confirmation that we will be made redundant as of 31st Dec. We have yet to…
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Redundancy Tax/Benefits Planning
Dear SMEers, I have the possibility of redundancy and given the current situation I am taking a very prudent view of new employment opportunities. I am 50 years old and a higher rate tax payer and I have been offered a 6-figure sum - more than enough to pay off my remaining mortgage. As I am on a 2 year fix, my initial…
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Tax implications of completing freelance work during redundancy notice period, sole trader set-up
Hi hoping you can help. I was made redundant on 21st Aug with a notice period of 1 month which was complete by the 21st September. I was lucky enough to secure a freelance contract very quickly which I started work on at the beginning of September and have done 1 months work (112 hrs) which I now need to invoice for. To do…
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Will I be bottom of the pile when applying for an internal job while a consultation is happening?
Hi all. So sadly my company are having a consultation and it is sad as some very good people will leave. However, I’ve been working toward a role and been on a secondment in a certain role, which I always knew I’d need to apply for. But now in this new world a colleague will apply for this job who is just applying for it…
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Very confused on final payment
So I should of received my VR payment into my account today. Nothing. last week I received an email stating: “I can confirm that your final total redundancy payment is made up as follows: Redundancy pay of £5,380.94 Notice pay of £3,244.92 (PILON amount)” I got paid 1270. No other ex colleague had an issue with payment (we…
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Layoff as an 'implied term'
Hi not strictly related to redundancy, but I think most likely this is a precursor to it happening. I have been with my employer for around 10 years now and they have asked me to sign a new contract as the company name is changing to LTD. within this new contract are several thing I disagree with one of which is an unpaid…
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Student Loan Repayment after Redundancy - Scotland
I have been repaying my student loan at about £8-12 per month. I've just been made redundant and have my final payslip - Total of £11,100. £6500 of this is redundancy payment. Student loan of £463 has been deducted but I can't find out why it is so high or how it has been worked out. Citizens Advice can't help, and Student…
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Redundancy
Hi guys ive been employed by the company for 6 years now. In August I was announced that my job role will now be redundant. I was due to leave the company on 14th September. 2 weeks prior to leaving I found another alternative role in the business. I went from permanent to fixed term. However being in my new role for 2…
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Is this fair
Last week I got back to work base and was asked to have a ‘chat’ I was handed a 3 letters one ‘warning of possible redundancies’ which went on to say they needed to make ‘a’ redundancy. I was handed a scoring sheet, there are 6 people who do the same job as me, I was scored lowest out of 5, the 6th employee not on the…
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Redundancy Consultation and Notice Peroid.
Was wondering when will my 3 month notice peroid begins.They will not ask me to work the notice,was informed about possibly redunancies late Wednesday,told this morning it will be me.Have the first consultation meeting with them on Monday afternoon.My question is,does the notice peroid start after all the consultations…
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Redundancy with immediate effect - notice period
Hi everyone, new here so apologies if this is in the wrong area. Just after some advise. My husband has been employed by the same employer for 6 years. He was told in June they were looking at redundancy's due to drop in work and would hold consultations, he had two meetings and at the second was told he was safe. He then…
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Redundancy and mental health
I was made redundant from my job earlier this year. Obviously a bit shocking but to be expected as I did very little from day one (not my choice). Anyway I tried to tell HR about my mental health a couple of months after starting the job - I wasn’t asking for reasonable adjustments, just what the company policy is (I was…
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Appealing Redundancy
Can you appeal redundancy during the consultation period,
and does appealing it actually change the date you become redundant?
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Entitled to redundancy pay?
A friend of mine is about to be made redundant. She started employment on 11th October 2018. She received her ‘at risk letter on 27th August’ and her notice period is one month. I am aware that you have to be employed for two years for redundancy pay but as it is a large employer, I would imagine the 45 day consultation…
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Redundancy & Preferential Treatment Maternity
I currently work for a company that has announced redundancies
for over 200 staff across the UK and has implemented the collective redundancy process. The new structure for our particular office proposes the removal of several
staff at various grades, i.e. office administrators, managers etc to be
replaced by two newly…
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Redundancy pay?- offered a new contract but already have another job
Hello, Hoping for some advice. I was informed at the beginning of July (through a formal redundancy process) that my current contract would not be renewed when it expired on 30th September. I had been in my job for 2.5 years when I was advised of the upcoming redundancy. I set about applying for jobs and was offered a job…
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End of fixed term contract, do employers need to give me redundancy notice?
My fixed term contract states that it is only for a period of a year and that my job is linked to a project that only runs for one year. It ends on 31st August. I am pretty sure that my contract won't be renewed as a recent email implied that my last pay date will be at the end of July. Do my employers have to give me…
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Possible redundancy and alternative job offer
Hi, My partner was advised on Monday by his employer that they will be closing the business (they have another site in another town) and they are looking at possible redundancies. My partner was the manager of the closing branch and there is a manager at the other branch, but obviously only one position available. My…
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Help
Hi there, i have been made redundant recently and I have been offered a job with a new company with the same industry. They do not offer the same services and as one works with domestic customer and the other new build. I wanted to see if that would be classed as a competitor and would affect my redundancy.
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Potential Redundancy but biased scoresheet?
Hello and thanks for helping. I will try and keep this to the point. Been with my company for 4 years, nearly 5. 9 months ago handed in my notice for another job for substantial pay increase. Technical director offered the same pay if I stayed which was an £8000 a year raise. I accepted (regretfully now). Been on furlough…
