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Redundancy or Reduced Hours
I have been working full time for my company for over five years and have been on furlough since 1st April. This coming Friday I have a meeting at work with my two directors. Originally casually over the phone termed as "a meeting to discuss your options" but I have subsequently received an official letter stating that…
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Covid Redundancy Questions
Hi all. My workplace had to close due to Covid, and is still not in a position to be able to reopen. I am currently furloughed, but I have been informally told by my employer that unless the situation changes, I am going to be made redundant when the furlough scheme winds down. Whether that will be August, September or…
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Redundancy calculated on furlough pay?
I am on furlough and under consultation for redundancy. In the latest communication they have stated that SRP will be calculated on the 80% furlough wage and not my full wage - is this allowed? I am also concerned that the company have changed ownership during my employment - will my total years service be used in the…
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Redundancy Consultation
I am at risk of redundancy and in the consultation process, my company has proposed to reduce headcount in our team from 2 to 1. The other person has accepted an alternative job in another department and started that job. I assume that neither of us are going to be made redundant and I’m safe as the one left over. But I’m…
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Redundancy Garden Leave instead of PILON
My husband was put under consultation in February and was due to have his final consultation meeting prior to lockdown. His company chose to pause the consultation rather than finalise it and furloughed him instead. Prior to the pause his company had indicated verbally, during consultation meetings, that he would receive…
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Redundancy pay if taking other employment whilst furloughed
I am currently furloughed pending redundancy in August. I know I am allowed to take other employment whilst furloughed but if I did find another job before the redundancy date, would I lose my payout? * note * I would still be available to work for my existing employer with their 48 hour notice policy, (although I 100%…
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Overtime and Holiday Pay Due
Hi, Me and my colleagues have all been made redundant and are fighting to get extra hours worked and annual leave paid. We all have weekly hour contracts but is classed as flexi-time as we could work more or less hours each week. Before lockdown a few of us had extra hours but are now fighting to get all these hours paid.…
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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…
