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Reduction in Hours
Good Afternoon MSE world, Hope you are all staying safe and indoors where possible! Today my girlfriend has out of the blue received an email from the businesses director advising all 5 members of her teams have had their hours reduced from 37.5 hours to 8.5 hours. They quoted the 'lay off without pay' clause detailed in…
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Redundancy - How Much Notice?
I have been with my company for 4 years and 3 months. My notice period is 3 months.... Looking at the redundancy policy - 1 weeks pay for each completed year ie 4 weeks. My question is - will I only get the 4 weeks redundancy pay OR do they have to pay me for the 3 months notice period too?
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RPS - Claim for statutory notice pay
I have been made redundant after the company I work for, went into compulsory liquidation. Another company has purchased and taken over, I have received a new contract. According to the letter I received I cannot claim redundancy pay as I have not been employed for at least 2 years. The letter refers to claiming "statutory…
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Paying redundancy into pension
Hi I'm currently going through redundancy after over 20 years service. I'm aware the first £30k will be paid tax free, but any money over that will be taxed. The HR rep running the consultation mentioned I would have the option of putting money into my Final Pay pension in a way that will reduce the tax being paid on the…
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Why can't I get unemployment insurance anymore ?
My husband & I are both in full time employment and want to protect ourselves against redundancy should the worst happen. Since the outbreak of CovID19, quotes have either gone through the roof or you simply can't get one anymore. Even as recently as Sunday quotes were minimal - £20 but not anymore. My financial advisor…
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Fear of redundancy due to refusing to work because of lack of Coronavirus PPE
Hi all I am currently suspended from work as I have raised concerns with my management around a lack of suitable PPE. I work for a funeral home transporting the deceased from private homes and care homes to the funeral home. I earn £300 per month for being on standby for 240 hours. I have a high risk elderly father in law…
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Redundancy when you have a job AND a small business
I have a full time job, paying a decent wage, I also have a very small business that just makes £1000 - £2000 profit a year, usually all in March, nothing else gets done for the rest of the year. I put in a SA tax return every year . If I were made redundant from my salaried job, would my small business affect my ability…
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COT 3
I have agreed a cot 3 payment through my union talking to my ex employer. How long do I need to wait on the letter I need to sign then how long before I get that payment?
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Terminating employment / redundancy
I have received a letter yesterday from my employer dated 16th March serving me with one month notice and "terminating my contract. It says how sorry they are that this has become necessary but does not mention redundancy. I started working at the company 26th March 2018. I know you have to have been working at a company…
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Redundancy Stress Please help!
Hello, I am in urgent need of some advice please, I have been having some health issues recently and my OCC Health advised the business i should do some WFH and reduced hours, I have been WFH every Wednesday but not really reduced my hours in order to keep up with demand on the role. 2 weeks ago I had a PDR (performance…
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Risk to my employment - insuring against loss of income
I don't know if this is the right place to post. A complaint was raised against me and it going to a disciplinary panel. If it goes against me then my job could be at risk. However, my employer has made significant procedural errors in following its own policy and procedure and because of the nature of my business and the…
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Redundancy Pay arrived soo confused.
I am hoping someone can advise. I was made redundant on Wednesday. We were told we would get a breakdown of our redundancy, a payslip for holidays, overtime and weeks worked at the end of March on our normal pay day. Today I have received a cheque in the post no explanation just reference redundancy. I have contacted our…
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Flybe crash
Hi not sure if anyone can help but my son in law has lost his pilots position due the the crash of Flybe. On top of losing his job and his income he has just found out his pension fund is not protected as Flybe used an Isle of Man company for employees pensions he is set to lose around £225,000 is there anything he can do…
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Am I entitled to redundancy
I have worked for my employer for over 15 years. He has reduced my hours from 40 to 27 per week. I have asked him to make me redundant but he refuses. I cannot survive on the reduction to my income. My new contract starts this week and I am worried that if I go into work this would mean I have accepted the new hours and…
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Preferential Creditor (only certain amounts owed?) from company administration
Hi, I've returned the form the administrators sent to me for monies I believe I'm owed from the company I worked for that went into administration and I have received a letter back saying that only certain amounts I'm owed are preferential. Can someone confirm? I am being advised by the administrstors that the following…
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Statutory redundancy - am I at risk of not getting it?
Slightly confusing situation. I worked with my previous employer for over 10 year, and knew they had money troubles, and talk was the money would run out mid 2020, so I started to look for alternate employment in the last quarter of 2019. In Nov 2019, I was offered a job with a competitor, however agreed with them that I…
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redundancy advice
My uncle has gone into work today and 6 of them, including my uncle, have been told they will be made redundant. The company he works for was taken over 2 years ago. He has worked for the company in it's various guises for 30 years. The employer has said that regardless of what they have been told in the past he will only…
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Redundancy & Tax
Hi everyone - I'm wondering if anyone has gone through the same experience as I am about to ? I will be being made redundant in June and will be receiving a payment of around £51,000. I am aware that the first 30k is tax and NI free and I won't pay NI on the remaining 21k but is there a chance that I will get over taxed on…
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Redundancy pay for term time jobs
Hi, I'm hoping you can clarify something about redundancy pay. I work in a preschool and they are asking for voluntary redundancies. We get paid fortnightly and only during term time. We get our holiday pay 2 weeks during Christmas holidays, 1 week at Easter holidays and 2 weeks for Summer holidays. I have worked there…
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Redundancy at 55
Just in process if being made redundant. I have an NHS pension which I have been advised that I can take as I'm 55 years old. My union rep strongly thinks that my employer has to pay contributions from redundancy date until my pensionable age of 67. I've contacted the pension company who said that is incorrect. My company…
