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Redundancy options?

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The accountancy firm that I have been working at for 13 years. Is being sold to another accountancy company, the new company is going to close the office I work at and move is all to there main offices, which is an additional 40 minutes away from where we are based now.
I am a mother of 2 very young children (6 years old and 2 years old) and currently work part time (3 days a week). The days I work I put my children into day care and after school club but need to pick them up by 18:00 if I work this far away I will not be able to get there in time. Plus if anything happens whilst I am at work to the children it would take me an hour to get back to them.
I have spoken to the company who is buying my company. They are not keen on me working from home and also the reason I go to work is to see people apart from my family. They have said that an option isthat I apply to my current company for redundancy. Is this possible? And how would I go about doing it? Does it work the same as standard redundancy that they would have to give me 3 months notice?
Please help

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  • lincroft1710
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    Jobs are redundant not people, so unless the job you are doing becomes redundant, you will not be made redundant.
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  • Masomnia
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    If they're taking over and closing your office then it is they who need to make you redundant. I'm sure they'd love it if your current company agreed to a redundancy for someone with 13 years service though!
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Masomnia wrote: »
    If they're taking over and closing your office then it is they who need to make you redundant. I'm sure they'd love it if your current company agreed to a redundancy for someone with 13 years service though!


    40 minutes each way is unlikely to be a redundancy situation
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  • Masomnia
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    40 minutes each way is unlikely to be a redundancy situation

    Additional 40 minutes. So will be more, but fair enough we don't know exactly. If the role is going, because the office is closing, then it is a redundancy situation, the point is it's a question of what the new company does about that, not the old one.

    Unfortunately for OP I think this is going to be one of those situations where both sides argue that she's not their responsibility.
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse
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