Some advice please

gibbers

Hi,

I have been at my company 12 years and have found out this last week that my position is "at risk". I work in Oil and Gas and my company is supposedly struggling at the moment, despite this they have just paid eveyone including myself a 10% bonus... This would imply to me that we have hit targets etc.

I have kind of shot myself in the foot as i got a promotion to a new team last year and it's now a case of last in first out (the other people on my team have been there longer than me) there is not any alternative jobs for me in the company so I am resigned to the fact I will be out of a job, ironically if i had stayed in my old department I would be OK.

I just want to know if I have any bargaining power to get a better settlement.. The bonus thing doesn't sit right with me and I see alot of departments not letting anyone go whereas mine will go from 6 people to 3.

I have been offered statutory redundancy as well as my notice period (3 months) paid in a lump sum (taxed) and 2 months pay which will be untaxed... This works out about 6 months pay.

Am I in a position to ask for anymore?

Thanks

lincroft1710

Call me a cynic but reading your post it seems to me that your employer wanted rid of you so engineered a promotion so that you moved into a department where you could soon be made redundant.

If the redundancy package is equivalent to what the law imposes and also what your company policy states or is better than these then you do not appear to have good grounds for asking for more. If the offer was verbal or if it was in writing with the words WITHOUT PREJUDICE at the top of the letter then don't upset the apple cart!

A final thought, any chance of being offered your old job back even if it does mean a cut in salary.