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Settlement agreement possible for a temp worker?
Hi I've been temping at the same company through an agency for nearly 5 years. The company are closing the site at the end of August and our department is relocating out of the UK so my colleagues will be receiving severance pay. The company HR have very generously offered me an incentive bonus of 9k as they cannot offer…
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part-time redundancy, found new job will i forfeit redundancy
Hi Could someone please advise. I have worked at a school for 7 years (technician) full time and changed to two days part time after starting a family. Myself and 11 others have been given notice of redundancy, a little over two months notice. I have since found another part time job at a different school within a…
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How much redundancy/pay off am I entitled too?
My husband is currently in full time employment and has been at the same place of work for 30years. Since leaving school. If He got made redundant how much is he likely to expect on redundancy pay? Thank you in advance.
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Redundancy/Re-employment Offer: Am I Losing Out?
Hello all, I'm looking for advice on a redundancy/re-employment offer; I have been offered a new role, which is essentially the same role but with a title change. Another strange thing is that it's written into my existing contract that I can be given a new role at any point, so why would I need to be made redundant and…
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If i get rehired do I have to pay back redundancy?
On may 21st the store I worked in closed down and I was made redundant. Because of this closure a local store that is part of the same company has received an uptick in business and are now offering me a job there. I have been told by my old manager that if I get rehired by the same company within a certain time frame they…
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Childcare, Redundancy & Self Employment
Hi guys, I'm unfortunately being made redundant (well, we're in consultation at the moment but it's pretty much a forgone conclusion) and my employment will end the first week in July. My child has been accepted for 30 hours' free childcare from September at a local term-time nursery and I really do not want to lose this,…
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Do I have an unfair dismissal case?
Hi All, I'm after a bit of advice if I could please. I've been made redundant - well my job title has, although I was not doing the role of the job title. My role has changed, but they never changed the title to go along with that. They suggested in Feb this year it should change, but never has. I was offered another role…
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quick advice please
Hello, I have posted on this here before but need some quick advice please The situation Company going through a really bad patch and one where I don't think we will survive, let lost money last month and I expect a bigger loss in June, company is trying to be sold on to someone else but the rumour I have heard is that…
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Redundancy process being handled badly
On 14 August this year I will have been at this company for 17 years. We have two offices, one in the UK and one in Brussels. The UK office was set up first and is the Head Office. There are two staff in the UK (me and one other who has also been here 17 years and gone through a hell of a lot of changes like I have). The…
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Redundancy and avoiding tax
Hi i hope some Guru can help me . I a thinking of taking redundancy at Xmas 2017. My salary is £43,800 I have worked for the company for 37 years and the figure is expected to be £54,000 including 90 days lieu. Obviously i can take £30,000 tax free . By Xmas i would have expected to have earned around £33,00. After taking…
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Redundancy Payment & Student Loan Deductions
I'm due to be made redundant in the coming months, and my employer has offered a good redundancy package. As it is below the 30K limit, it will not be subject to Tax or NIC but my Employer is not sure if the redundancy payout will be subject to student loan deductions. I rang SLC to check and the Advisor was really not…
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TUPE / Settlement agreement
Hello I have worked for a council for 25 years and the service I provide is being outsourced to private sector I met the new company yesterday who said straight away that after transfer there would be too many staff and everyone would have to compete for a job .... :( It was suggested that a settlement agreement could be…
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Do I register as unemployed?
I have recently been made redundant. I got a payout from the company as expected. I have savings so I am unsure if I am allowed to register as unemployed as I don't think I will get any payments. Can anyone explain the tax credits situation as this is the reason I read that I should register. I also plan to make some…
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Redundancy - Payment, benefits, insurance and self-employment
I've just been made redundant after 10 1/2 years with my employer - so settlement payment is reasonable but certainly doesn't come anywhere near to the £30k tax line! I should get about £17.5k + about £2.5k from selling shares bought through employee sharesave scheme over the years I've worked there. However I have about…
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Voluntary Redundancy aged 59 (and a half!)
My father has worked for a well-known, stable and large airline for the past 20 years. He earns approximately the national average wage (due to shift pay etc., exact salary is not simple to calculate, but amounts to around £30k / year). He's 59 years of age, and had planned to retire at 65 having paid in sufficient…
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Redundancy Issues
I was informed in writing in March that my role was redundant. I have not been given Notice. I had a further meeting last Month to try and decide if there was a suitable alternative. It was left that my boss would get back to me. He hasn't. However someone at work has changed her hours and I will now be covering her…
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Made redundant but asked to work as agency employee
I have been working for a company which creates two similar products . A few years ago the company was bought out by a larger, global company but nothing within the company changed . This company has recently been bought out by another larger, global company who only want to continue with one of the products. In February…
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Advice please on possible redundancy
Hi I'll try not to waffle explaining this situation, apologies in advance if I do. I work in a private school in the admissions department, started in September 2014. I work term time only + 3 weeks in the holidays (36 weeks in total). In September 2016 the department employed a deputy registrar that was a teacher (due to…
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Unfair or Discrimination?
Hi, thanks in advance for your support. I currently work at a school, doing everything IT (Technician, not teacher) and am about to be made redundant due to cost cutting. However, we also use a contractor for some IT - they run the server, and have gradually been doing more and more. (Not my choice) I am the ONLY…
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Should my boyfriend report the business that fired him?
Hi, I was hoping to get some advice on what I believe is an unfair dismissal and a less than legal business, very sorry if this is not the right place to post, but I’m not really sure where to go for advice. Today my boyfriend was fired from a cleaning job he had only been working at for a few weeks. It was the first time…
