Resignation accepted days before redundancies announced.

Sponge

My wife was on additional maternity leave when we decided we'd be better off if she didn't go back to work. So she handed in her letter stating such and later received a reply from the company giving her a termination date, this was a Monday. The following Wednesday we learnt that the company was closing the site and announced wide spread redundancies.

My wife had worked there for several years, I think about 10. As she had been away for the best part of a year, she was unaware of any impending redundancies.

We pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact that it was just unlucky, missing out on several thousand pounds. I pushed my wife to investigate further, find out the dates of notice, termination, etc, but she didn't. She's moved on, but I haven't.

We bumped into an old colleague of hers the other day and they got a substantial pay-out despite being there less time. It still riles me. I appreciate I’m probably clutching at straws, but I feel I need to look into it.
I’m convinced that management, specifically in HR, must have known about the redundancies. They’d need the notice to prepare for the onslaught of panicked employees. I feel they took my wife’s notice and gave her a termination date a couple of days prior to the announcement to avoid the payout. (I obviously have no evidence of this; it’s just how I feel.)

I’m wondering if there’s something in this information:

http://www.thesite.org/homelawandmoney/askthesiteqandas/legalandrightsqandas/resignedtoredundancy

If we found out the final date of employment, step back the notice period my wife was entitled to, and this date is before the termination date she was given, then would this mean she was within this ‘obligatory period’ and should have been told and possibly be still entitled to redundancy pay?

A friend of mine suggested looking into her untaken annual leave and how that might effect notice periods.

I don't know how this sort of thing is supposed to work, so any/all advice would be appreciated.

If the knowledgeable people of MSE tell me it’s a lost cause, then I can move on knowing I’ve at least sought some advice.

Emmzi

Look at the very first line in the link you posted to

To be able to leave and still get your redundancy payment, the company would first have had to have issued formal redundancy notices giving the final date of employment.

This had not happened. You have been unlucky. But you're getting nowt.

Move on.

SomeBozo

You didn't have a contract of employment with the company at the time that redundancy was announced. Bad luck and timing.

Bozo