How to handle resignation coupled with redundancy

MissD

Hi asking this on behalf of a friend, did have another post here for her but it got deleted.

Anyway she's being made redundant after just 2 years service (2 year anniversary last week).

Her company just want her to leave without redundancy pay eg resign. She did have a verbal warning about a year ago but this has expired.

She's now been offered a new job which she wants to accept.

She is thinking about sticking it out for another 6 weeks to get her redundancy pay.

However her boss and his wife (family company) are making life difficult, tasks that are hard to do within a permitted timescale, involves her to external parties, undue pressure (she already works some weekends and evenings and has a blackberry for this purpose).

If it were me I'd leave with a month's notice and forget about the redundancy pay but she seems happy to stick it out.

Also the way she found out about her being let go was her boss and wife was talking (maybe on purpose?) behind his door about her situation and my friend heard. Then a few days later the legal person told her the full story.

So what would everyone else do? thanks

gettingtheresometime

How much money are we talking about ?

I'm guessing that at most it will be 8 weeks worth at worst 2 weeks worth. How long has she been looking/applying for other work?

Personally if I had another job to go to when facing redundancy then I'd take the job every day of the week - but there again I'm the sort of person who'd sleep in the lifeboat just in case lol!

MissD

I think it's about 1,000 GBP.

then plus I assume her notice pay and any untaken holiday pay unless she takes it as leave.

I'd not risk new job though, normally they want you to start within a month.

MissD

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

How much money are we talking about ?

I'm guessing that at most it will be 8 weeks worth at worst 2 weeks worth. How long has she been looking/applying for other work?

Personally if I had another job to go to when facing redundancy then I'd take the job every day of the week - but there again I'm the sort of person who'd sleep in the lifeboat just in case lol!

She's got a new job - offered on Monday!

gettingtheresometime

Yes but how long was she looking for and how many jobs did she apply for?

Or did she strike lucky with her first attempt?

As for the untaken holiday she'd get that in her last pay or alternatively she could take it as part of her notice period so she could start her new job early....and effectively get paid double for the same period.

Personally I think she's mad to risk it but I don't have to live with the consequences

DKLS

I guess the question that needs answering Is a grand worth 8 weeks of being managed by idiotic amateurs?

Personally I would try and negotiate with them if they wanted me out early I would ask for say £750 to go with without fuss or if the 1k is a too much to lose out on I would cruise for the next two months, its amazing how the stress falls away when you know you have an exit plan in place and you have already mentally left, and I would keep that crackberry switched off at evenings and weekends.

getmore4less

If she has been told they want to make her redundant ask for the notice of termination in writing.

Stop doing extra and push back on unreasonable demands.

2 weeks statutory redundancy is less than 1k

MissD

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Yes but how long was she looking for and how many jobs did she apply for?

Or did she strike lucky with her first attempt?

As for the untaken holiday she'd get that in her last pay or alternatively she could take it as part of her notice period so she could start her new job early....and effectively get paid double for the same period.

Personally I think she's mad to risk it but I don't have to live with the consequences

She was very lucky had been applying for jobs for a while anyway on and off and got first and second interviews within 2 weeks and a job offer on Monday just gone.

I would want to be out of there ASAP but she's been treated badly by her employers (but this seems par for the course these days, long hours etc) and she seems to want to get everything she can out of them.

MissD

DKLS wrote: »

I guess the question that needs answering Is a grand worth 8 weeks of being managed by idiotic amateurs?

Personally I would try and negotiate with them if they wanted me out early I would ask for say £750 to go with without fuss or if the 1k is a too much to lose out on I would cruise for the next two months, its amazing how the stress falls away when you know you have an exit plan in place and you have already mentally left, and I would keep that crackberry switched off at evenings and weekends.

You are so right - I think sadly the crackberry would be on for her as it may affect her reference. Can they discipline her when she's handed in her notice?

I think her strategy now is to negotiate and it's 6 weeks not 2 months.

I think she feels relieved and her new bosses are not like the current ones!

MissD

getmore4less wrote: »

If she has been told they want to make her redundant ask for the notice of termination in writing.

Stop doing extra and push back on unreasonable demands.

2 weeks statutory redundancy is less than 1k

Where did you get the 2 weeks stat redundancy, I think it'd be 2 months from what she's given me.

The unreasonable stuff, yes, I'd make a stand on that. The *extra* having blackberry on at weekends etc is part of her job already. I'd not want to jeopardise a good reference by ballsing up now. But that's me.

McKneff

Contractually she would only be entitled to 2 weeks pay, and any accrued holiday pay.


Does she really get £500 a week.?