Zero-hours contract rights

Dubs1898

I'm being faced with redundancy from a company I've worked at for 5 1/2 years but I'm struggling to work out what my statutory redundancy pay would be as those years are split roughly into 3 years on a zero hours contract (classed as an "employee" working more than standard full time hours) and 2 1/2 years in full-time permanent employment.

Initially I presumed that any statutory redundancy pay would only be counted from the last 2 1/2 years when I've been on a permanent contract, however, looking into it in a bit more detail I've seen that I may also be entitled for the time that I was on a zero-hours contract as I would have been classed as an "employee" rather than a "worker" or "self-employed".

Does anyone have any experience of this situation?

Thanks in advance...

Takeaway_Addict

your redundancy presuming there is no break in contract would be based on your last working contract...which for you gives a small bit of good fortune.

Undervalued

Yes, it is based on your salary at the point of redundancy, your age and length of service. What you earned earlier is irrelevant.

Dubs1898

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

your redundancy presuming there is no break in contract would be based on your last working contract...which for you gives a small bit of good fortune.

Thanks for the info. There has been no break in contract but obviously I signed a new contract when I went from zero-hours to permanent, so will this affect anything or will I essentially be entitled to 5 years statutory redundancy and any notice periods and benefits associated with that?

getmore4less

Some zero hours contracts a written as recurring casual contracts where there can be breaks of contract if you don't work for a period.

Work on the default of the full service till they show evidence of the contrary