Redundancy contract advice needed

madkitty

We have been given the choice of taking redundancy or a major cut in salary and a change in location (working from home) and I think I will be going for the former as I have been with my company for 9 years.

My notice period is therefore 9 weeks - Im presuming I will have to be paid and will still have my current contract terms imposed and will not have to go along with the pay cut as those will who are staying? If I get another job can I also negotiate my notice period - being in sales my boss is not going to want me to sit around all day doing nothing for 9 weeks and especially as he is going to have to pay out to set me up from home. I presume also I have to take into account the holiday entitlement when negotiating?

McKneff

Whats to negotiate, you are entitled to 9 weeks notice as you say,
9 weeks redundancy pay and any accrued holiday pay. thats the statutory anyway, they cant give you less than this.

Sorry, edited, i am presuming you are under 41, if over then it is 1and a half weeks pay for those years.

madkitty

because if I am allowed to leave 2 weeks into my 9 week notice then surely I would forego the salary and holiday entitlement to the rest of my notice?

McKneff

I see what you mean.
They would probably ask you to go immediately, so you would be entitled to what i said before.
If you make the choice to leave early they would probably not pay you for the other 7 weeks of your notice but you would still be entitled to the redundancy pay and your accrued holiday pay up to the point of leaving. The key words are 'if you make the choice to leave early'

madkitty

my theory is that because im in sales and because I would need to be set up from home that potentially I could negotiate an amount to leave early to make their life easier - who would want an aggrieved sales person potentially a. not doing much work and b. having access to a huge database that they could take leads with them

McKneff

This is what i was talking about when i said that they would probably get you to leave immediately. Hang fire and see what they offer you and see if they tell you whether you have to leave immediately or not, if so, your quids in.
Its normal practice these days especially when there are clients involved.
But please let us know how you get on, we love a happy ending.

By the way i love your username