Previous employer demanding payback of £2000 bonus

jamesfisher1989

Due to the work I was doing not bringing in enough revenue, I was issued with a 'Performance Improvement Plan' by my manager, giving me X amount of weeks to see how things go. Despite not reaching these, he essentially informally offered me the job the other guy who left was doing. This was the week before I left I think.
Then the day I left, I get called into speak to him, who says that we are letting you go! The letter I got was just a confirmation of dates etc, outstanding pay, I don't think they need to go into more detail as I was still under probation, they get rid of people all the time in this industry.

AP007

jamesfisher1989 wrote: »

Due to the work I was doing not bringing in enough revenue, I was issued with a 'Performance Improvement Plan' by my manager, giving me X amount of weeks to see how things go. Despite not reaching these, he essentially informally offered me the job the other guy who left was doing. This was the week before I left I think.
Then the day I left, I get called into speak to him, who says that we are letting you go! The letter I got was just a confirmation of dates etc, outstanding pay, I don't think they need to go into more detail as I was still under probation, they get rid of people all the time in this industry.

So not redundant? No you can be 'let go' any time up to two years before you could claim unfair dismissal but redundancy is the same at any time in employment which yours no don't seem to be

makeyourdaddyproud

AP007 wrote: »

OP does it only say if you resign and leave?

What does it say about if you are made redundant?

Secondly what was the actual start date and the final date you are going to be paid for? Feb to July is 6 mths depending on the dates

You can't count, that's for sure.

AP007

jacques_chirac wrote: »

Pretty common place nowadays.

Any normal person would get it all still in writing as I know I would and to cover them the company should have put it in writing too.

globetraveller

would the holidays due take you to 6 months?

jacques_chirac

AP007 wrote: »

Any normal person would get it all still in writing as I know I would and to cover them the company should have put it in writing too.

Not in the least bit helpful to the OP.

jamesfisher1989

Well it's semantics isn't it, I suppose I associate redundancy with payoffs, consultation periods etc. As as I was still under probation I could be 'let go' with a week's notice.
As I have outlined above, we had had discussions about my work and how to move forward, and it was thought by everyone in the office and myself that I was to stay and take over from who was leaving. This isn't provable of course, but that's how thing's happened.

duchy

What does your contract say about notice period (on both sides) during your probationary period ?

jamesfisher1989

1 week on my side, 'statutory minimum' for them

AP007

jamesfisher1989 wrote: »

Due to the work I was doing not bringing in enough revenue, I was issued with a 'Performance Improvement Plan' by my manager, giving me X amount of weeks to see how things go. Despite not reaching these, he essentially informally offered me the job the other guy who left was doing. This was the week before I left I think.
Then the day I left, I get called into speak to him, who says that we are letting you go! The letter I got was just a confirmation of dates etc, outstanding pay, I don't think they need to go into more detail as I was still under probation, they get rid of people all the time in this industry.

Yes but its not for the reason you stated in the very first post. You said 'I was to lose my job, due to cutbacks in the number of permanent staff'

jamesfisher1989 wrote: »

Well it's semantics isn't it, I suppose I associate redundancy with payoffs, consultation periods etc. As as I was still under probation I could be 'let go' with a week's notice.
As I have outlined above, we had had discussions about my work and how to move forward, and it was thought by everyone in the office and myself that I was to stay and take over from who was leaving. This isn't provable of course, but that's how thing's happened.

Probation as I said is not worth the paper its written on as they can get rid up to 2 years in but a real redundancy would be just that no matter how long you have been there.

I would imagine now that you have been fired the contract stands