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Unfair redundancy
I am the lowest paid part time worker in my company and I have been selected (by a scoring criteria) for redundancy (due to financial cuts). The week we were informed that there would be redundancies worker A returned from MAT leave and took voluntary redundancy. Worker B, who was covering her MAT leave on a fixed term…
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Is this OK?
Will try and cut a long story short here. I work in UK for a US engineering company. Recently we were given notice that our entire department was at risk of redundancy and we entered the consultation period. Since managers were included, consultation was being done over the phone between our reps and senior management in…
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Garden Leave
To cut a long story short, my contract is Monday-Thursday days, due to staff shortage on the night shift, I was asked to cover which I have done for the past 6 months, I was then told a month ago my day job no longer existed and was told I was being made redundant, I have been given 3 months garden leave from 15/7/16. If…
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Redundancy after 8 years (6 year secondment)
I have been working at a company for 8 years. After 2 years I was seconded to higher paid role that I have being doing the 6 years. There has been a company restructure that will see me go down to my substantive post (the post I was doing for the first 2 years) downgraded to lower salary than when I first started. This was…
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Redundancy
There's nothing in my contract about redundancy, so I'm assuming that I would get the statutory amount (about £5,000 from when I last did the calculators). However, the secretary before me left under unfavourable circumstances (I don't know the ins and outs) and I know my boss paid her off with a Compromise Agreement and…
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Can I get redundancy pay if I leave now?
I work for "that household furnishing/clothing branch" that has gone under. We got literature that our jobs were in threat from 14th June 2016 and there has been no successful buyer in place so now going through the process of liquidation. The job as far as I am concerned is over but we haven't been advised of a leaving…
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Everyone being made redundant but want us to stay
Good morning, I/we are looking for a bit of quick advice regarding our situation. I will try to give a short explanation. Everyone in this ltd company has been put on notice as there has been no significant growth or contracts awarded. They are also in the process of selling us. We have also been told not to worry, at the…
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New roles and flexible working arrangement help please!
Hi, I have been told my job is at risk of being made redundant. I work in IT and they are changing the technology that we use. I have questioned why my role is redundant when there will be the same number of roles in the new structure and they will be doing the same function (supporting a system) just with different…
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Redundancy shows on payslip but haven't received in bank?
Hello, I was recently made redundant, 24th June was my final day however 25th being my pay day. A few days later I received my payslip with my p45, on the payslip it had my basic salary, redundancy amount and holiday pay. When checking my balance it seems I only have 1 of the payments being almost half the amount? (basic…
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Redundancy affected or not?
My husband had his first of three meetings regarding his compulsory redundancy due to his position being relocated to a different part of the UK. Should it go ahead he will get redundancy pay plus three months wages in lieu of notice at the end of July. He has been approached by a contracting company to take up,…
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Tax on redundancy payment
Hi Everyone - I have a question with reference to tax on redundancy payment. My situation is a little bit unique you could say. I'm currently working abroad and earn and pay tax abroad. At the end of this period , I will return to the uk and be made redundant and paid the redundancy in GBP, paying tax to HMRC. I have no…
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Treatment of tax free redundancy payment of subsequently rehired?
Hello Quick one, the organisation that made my role redundant 8 months ago is potentially looking to rehire me as a contractor in a different role. From HMRCs perspective, could this have any impact on the tax free redundancy settlement that I previously received from them? Thanks
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Redundancy - Company in Adminstration and No Consultation
Hello, hubby was made redundant last month. It was very sudden and totally not expected: the company went into administration and slashed 75% of staff without consultation or notice. He was advised to seek redundancy, arrears, notice period etc from the redundancy payment services (which he did) and he recouped some of…
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Timing of redundancy
I work for a company that has recently been taken over. As a direct result, my role has effectively gone and there is an agreement on both sides that my role is redundant, and that there is not a suitable alternative. We are currently under collective consultation, that will soon move into individual consultation. I want…
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Would you take a Voluntary Redundancy?
Basically, I hope you guys can give me some insights. I am not British citizen, but I am from EU. I am 34 years old, with University degree, I got my family here. Me and my wife we both are working parents. We are renting, but we were planning to buy a house this year. However, I might postpone a bit... the thing is, he…
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Husband at BHS - statutory redundancy query
Hi all, My husband is a manager at a BHS store - which is closing soon as you all know. He's obviously going to get redundancy from the government, along with 10,999 others. But can anyone tell me how long applications for statutory redundancy take, and how long it is between applying and getting the money? Can anyone help?
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Variation to Contract (VTC) letter - HR advice needed - potential redundancy
Hi All, I'm hoping there's someone out there who could give me some H.R. advice please .... Back in April, totally out of the blue, my manager advised that they were shutting down our department within this larger organisation. HR were present in the meeting when this was told to me, and I was fortunate enough to be…
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Term time redundancy
Hi/ all Being made redundant, help required please Gov. U.K. , Acas no use! I work at a play school as a nursery assistant 30 hrs a week term time only, 39 weeks per yr I've filled in my details pay age service etc in on gov.uk Which says I'm entitled to 26.5 weeks pay at my weekly pay But my boss wants to divide my wage…
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Discrimination in restructuring/redundancy
Hi I work in a small village primary school which is part of a multi academy trust (MAT). The MAT recently proposed a huge restructuring, whereby 140 support staff faced redundancy. My colleague (A), who works as a learning mentor, was given the option to apply for her job but with a massive reduction in pay and hours.…