quick advice please

Beatle_Ray

Hello,


I have posted on this here before but need some quick advice please


The situation
Company going through a really bad patch and one where I don't think we will survive, let lost money last month and I expect a bigger loss in June, company is trying to be sold on to someone else but the rumour I have heard is that some of us will be given the option of redundancy of new contract as a consultant but be paid by a % of the turnover, I have a paid for job no commission and a three month contract with 33 years service
A colleague
One of my colleagues here is about to be given a second written warning today and she has just given the boss an email about what she wants, she has been reading confidential emails between the two partners and I'm worried she might implicate me, its about to get mad here as the boss is reading it now and she just told me she sent it, should I keep quite and say I didn't know?


Thanks in advance

Guest101

Beatle_Ray wrote: »

Hello,


I have posted on this here before but need some quick advice please


The situation
Company going through a really bad patch and one where I don't think we will survive, let lost money last month and I expect a bigger loss in June, company is trying to be sold on to someone else but the rumour I have heard is that some of us will be given the option of redundancy of new contract as a consultant but be paid by a % of the turnover, I have a paid for job no commission and a three month contract with 33 years service
A colleague
One of my colleagues here is about to be given a second written warning today and she has just given the boss an email about what she wants, she has been reading confidential emails between the two partners and I'm worried she might implicate me, its about to get mad here as the boss is reading it now and she just told me she sent it, should I keep quite and say I didn't know?


Thanks in advance

I think you need to start again and explain exactly what is happening, this is just a mess at the moment.

Beatle_Ray

Hi,


Sorry, in summary, it looks as though I going to be offered either redundancy or a new contract when someone buys the company I currently work for, the new contract will change to a consultancy and pay will be based on a % of the turnover rather than the salary position I currently have. What should I do?

Guest101

Beatle_Ray wrote: »

Hi,


Sorry, in summary, it looks as though I going to be offered either redundancy or a new contract when someone buys the company I currently work for, the new contract will change to a consultancy and pay will be based on a % of the turnover rather than the salary position I currently have. What should I do?

Probably take the redundancy


That new 'consultancy' set up will likely be illegal anyway, you'd be employed and therefore entitle to at least the living wage.


It does however seem your position would be made redundant, so have they started to consult on that?


Also what was all that about a colleague and emails?

getmore4less

last thread by OP on this
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5556837

plenty of previous ones as well.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.php?do=finduser&u=139093&starteronly=1

Beatle_Ray

Hello,
Thanks for the prompt reply, re the colleague, she has been under performing and lost a lot of her clients and therefore isn't doing much as far as generating income, the firm want to fire her and had already given her a written warning about three weeks ago, she responded to that warning this morning, there is a computer in the office which isn't manned all the time and the two owners regularly email one another, over the week-end they discussed about getting rid of her and issuing a final warning but she got her response in first before they had chance to do it, all gone very quiet on that at the moment, should I just deny any knowledge of what she has been up to?

sangie595

Beatle_Ray wrote: »

Hello,
Thanks for the prompt reply, re the colleague, she has been under performing and lost a lot of her clients and therefore isn't doing much as far as generating income, the firm want to fire her and had already given her a written warning about three weeks ago, she responded to that warning this morning, there is a computer in the office which isn't manned all the time and the two owners regularly email one another, over the week-end they discussed about getting rid of her and issuing a final warning but she got her response in first before they had chance to do it, all gone very quiet on that at the moment, should I just deny any knowledge of what she has been up to?

How do you know any of this? And what business is it of yours. Unless, of course, you have been reading confidential emails?

Beatle_Ray

No business of mine at all but she told me that's all, just didn't want to get caught up in all of this that's all, the fear of redundancy and all the politics involved in the company can be very draining and this has been going on now for some time but seems to be coming to a conclusion anyway