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Gardening Leave & Redundancy
My brother in law was on Furlough due to Government advice (letter received due to asthma) and during this period he was contacted by his works regards a change in his contract and role. He would be drop down the ladder, less money and change in hours. He's been at the same Company for 14 years. They are stating that in a…
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Calculating redundancy when Employer changed PAYE reference
Hello, I have a question that I cannot find answered on any site. I am being made redundant and my employer has calculated my redundancy payment. This figure is different to the one I calculated. He has my start date as 2006 while I have 2003 - I have kept all my P60s and Pay slips. Here's where I get muddled. During the…
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Redundancy and tax
I may be being made redundant shortly and know that £30k of redundancy pay is tax free. I am a basic rate tax payer but will i incur an element of higher rate tax on my redundancy pay if that takes me over the threshold once added to what i've already earned this year ? If higher rate tax is deducted can this then be…
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The Great 'What to do in the event of redundancy' Hunt
Update: We now have a fully researched Redundancy Help Guide Back to the original Great Hunt: Have you ever been made redundant? The Great 'What to do in the event of redundancy' Hunt This is a special plea. Recently in the 'suggestions for major articles' discussion someone asked for one on what to do in the event of…
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Forced to use up holiday entitlement, then made redundant.
My employer put me on the furlough scheme at the beginning of April. On 28 May I received a letter informing me that I would be remaining on the scheme throughout the summer and possibly until the scheme ends in October. On 5 June I received a request from my company asking me to take 13 days holiday between the 1 and 24…
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Redundancy, self employment and Universal Credit
Hi. I have a quandary and hope you good folks can help me. I currently work part time and have my income supported by UC. I have just been informed by my employer that the shop that I work in is to close down in September. I am due a small amount of redundancy pay ( £1300) but am concerned that this will affect my UC…
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Redundancy - confidentiality expected incorrectly?
This morning at 9am my husband was informed his job is at risk of redundancy. 10am was his first consultation. He specified that as a line manager who is still working with his team he would like it to be kept confidential for the time being. They agreed. Half an hour ago he started receiving messages of consolation from…
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Backdating of voluntary pay cuts
So a query for anyone who might be more knowledgeable than me. My employer has recently taken the (somewhat understandable) decision in the current climate to request that all employees voluntarily submit to a temporary 20% pay cut. They have however elected to backdate this pay cut to the beginning of this month (two…
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My employer changed my redundancy criteria score after consultation
Like many of you, I am unfortunately at risk of redundancy and have had two consultation meetings to go through this with management. My work used a scoring matrix to decide who would be 'at risk' and my score was confirmed to me at both meetings. Since then, I have found out that management have lowered my score after the…
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Additional Work Payments
Hi I hope someone can shed some light, I have been furloughed since the last week of March and although receiving 80% of my Salary at the end of May I normally receive a 13th month payment, this was paid and then deducted back, when i questioned it with my company I was just told the maximum they could claim was £2,500, I…
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Devastating e-mail received
About an hour ago I received an e-mail from my boss that Firm has been closed down with effect from Monday and we cannot return to office. I work for a law firm and SRA informed him yesterday that they have made an intervention order. We (staff) had no idea that this was going to happen and has obvs come as a devastating…
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Redundancy pay / accrued holiday
I have been on furlough since the beginning of April and not hopeful I will have a job to come back to as the job retention scheme begins to wind down. Last month, my employer asked us to book 2/3 of our annual leave by August to help manage the back log of untaken holiday otherwise we are at risk of losing these days for…
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wage discrepancy
I am due to be made redundant soon and got a one to one meeting week after next. on checking my wages to try and work out my redundancy figures i realised i was been underpaid on checking with HR they admitted they had not increased my pay correctly when we had a pay rise they owed me £720 . This was paid last month. would…
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Outstanding. Debt
Facing imminent redundancy should receive a total payment of around 19k. if I clear a car loan of 10k will I then receive some form of unemployment benefits or will they deem I have used this money irresponsibly ??
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Restructuring Counter Proposal
The business I work for is currently going through a restructuring process. A selection of workload has been moved to sit with one individual. This workload is significant and will max out their workload twice fold. We showed this by listing tasks and the capacity it uses up by week. The businesses retort was that they…
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Calculating PILON - On-call payments?
Hello - Our company is making a significant minority of us redundant in the coming weeks. I'm trying to work out what I may be due but struggling to find anything which covers the topic of on-call payments? The reason I ask is because currently I receive around £1,600 per month from on-call purposes, and have received over…
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been made redundant
hi, found out a few days ago i am been made redundant. i have 9 weeks notice money taking me up to 9th september and then i will recieve my redundancy pay. If i were to start a new job now, would i then be classed as leaving my job and loose my notice money and redundancy payment. or should i wait til after 9th september…
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Redundancy
Hi everyone, I am writing on behalf of a friend. The sports venue she has worked for for 20 years may have to close due to the current covid situation. If the company went into administration and they had no funds to pay redundancy, where would she stand? Many thanks in advance.
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Garden leave notice on furlough removed
Was placed on furlough on 11 may 2020 Then from 1st June made redundant ending on 20th August 2020 (12 weeks notice)Told not expected to work notice period while furloughed unless asked to return to work if need arises Then on 11th July 2020 got letter saying no longer necessary for the company to make me redundant Offered…
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Redundancy entitlement.....have we missed anything
Just wanted to check that we have not missed anything in potential redundancy One employee (coach driver/ 69) has worked for last 15 years (coach operator/ sole trader/ one vehicle / no other employees) No written contract of employment other than single page letter of introduction on joining company Currently furloughed…
