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Clarification on redundancy
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Hi all
After over 9 years of employment and after Consultations with my employer, I have officially been made redundant
I have been informed and received details (via letter along with a financial statement), that my notice period started on 20th August and my last day of employment will be 29th October.
I am NOT required to work my notice period, so said my goodbyes on the 20th and left.
Also within the letter, it states that I am not restricted by when I can start new employment as part of the agreement. It also states that they would be more than happy to provide a reference.
My questions are, if I was to get a new job within the notice period, do I need to let my employer know of this, regardless of whether a reference is required or not from the potential new employer?
And also, would I lose any Notice Pay/Redundancy pay from my employer, bearing in mind, I'm not required to work my notice and that I'm free to start new employment whenever, etc?
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks
After over 9 years of employment and after Consultations with my employer, I have officially been made redundant

I have been informed and received details (via letter along with a financial statement), that my notice period started on 20th August and my last day of employment will be 29th October.
I am NOT required to work my notice period, so said my goodbyes on the 20th and left.
Also within the letter, it states that I am not restricted by when I can start new employment as part of the agreement. It also states that they would be more than happy to provide a reference.
My questions are, if I was to get a new job within the notice period, do I need to let my employer know of this, regardless of whether a reference is required or not from the potential new employer?
And also, would I lose any Notice Pay/Redundancy pay from my employer, bearing in mind, I'm not required to work my notice and that I'm free to start new employment whenever, etc?
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks
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It will be down to what is in the contract.
Are they giving you Pay in Leave of Notice (PILON) or Gardening leave.
From what you describe it sounds like they have put you on Gardening Leave and that you are still employed by the company with your last date being the 29th October. They don't expect to you work but if that is the case they would normally pay you as per usual up till that date and then shortly after you would get your redundancy payment. Your company benefits may continue up till that date too.
If that is the case you would not normally be eligible to work for a new employer.0 -
Sorry but that is not so. Payment in lieu of notice is standard practice. One week for every year you have worked for your old employer up to 12 weeks. Plus payment for any holiday entitlement owing.
You can start a new job the day after you finish if you wish .
Or sign on.
Your old employer no long longer owns any part of you or your time. Good luck for the future.0 -
if you are over 41 years of age, your redundancy pay increases too.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
Sorry but that is not so. Payment in lieu of notice is standard practice. One week for every year you have worked for your old employer up to 12 weeks. Plus payment for any holiday entitlement owing.
You can start a new job the day after you finish if you wish .
Or sign on.
Your old employer no long longer owns any part of you or your time. Good luck for the future.
Payment in lieu of notice is not standard practice. It is entirely up to the employer whether they pay it or not.
Statutory notice is one week for every year up to a maximum of 12 weeks, after two years service. Contractual notice is whatever it is.
The employer appears, based on what the OP had said, to have given gardening leave, which continues employment. So yes, they are required to inform the employer, and might loose some notice pay if they start another job in the notice proud.
The first advice posted is in fact totally correct. Yours is totally wrong.0 -
Thirty years at the sharp end as a senior union representative and have hand held hundreds through
redundancy during that time. Never came across gardening leave not once. Sounds like something out
of the dark ages, or is that where we have gone back to?
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Thirty years at the sharp end as a senior union representative and have hand held hundreds through
redundancy during that time. Never came across gardening leave not once. Sounds like something out
of the dark ages, or is that where we have gone back to?
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What industry are you from?
Gardening leave has been around for ages both as way of holding people to their contractual notice period from either them resigning or being made redundant.0 -
Thirty years at the sharp end as a senior union representative and have hand held hundreds through
redundancy during that time. Never came across gardening leave not once. Sounds like something out
of the dark ages, or is that where we have gone back to?
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ChuckMountain wrote: »What industry are you from?
Gardening leave has been around for ages both as way of holding people to their contractual notice period from either them resigning or being made redundant.0 -
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garden leave goes back a long way I recall the term being used in the civil service and military way back(family).
A little bit of research says the term was used in an episode of Yes, prime minister in 1986.
There are reference in court cases as well.
William Hill Organisation Ltd v Tucker [1998] IRLR 3130
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