Help - I'm At Risk and its inevitable

tawmjk

Hi,

I need some advice on becoming redundant.  From the title, you can see that I have received a letter (via email) that I am at risk for redundancy as the company needs to restructure.  The next day, I had a 121 with my manager and hr, my head was spinning at this time.  So far, I have little information on why I was chosen apart from a “Score” and that under 20 persons have been made redundant.   Now I have to decide what to do next, the company has been very closed mouth so far as to who is facing redundancy and where in the company they work claiming confidentiality so that I cannot know if the score was fair.  What I can speculate on is that many of those being let go will be under 30 and I am 54 which is possibly the oldest, many will be Asian and I am white / non-English and many will have worked for the company for less than a year while I have been there 4 years which is significant considering the growth.  That makes me a perfect counterbalance to the others being let go.  I don’t think that I can fight this and don’t really want to considering the age discrimination I have faced (I nearly raised a complaint last December).  All I can do is to seek the best separation at a bad time.

I know that for me the legal minimum redundancy payment is six weeks salary, but what would be a typical amount?

Could prior age discrimination be worth discussing?  Or else a separate complaint if I can make a good case?

If I seek legal help, will I finish up with more at the end of the day?

Is it worth asking if my redundancy can be delayed by going on furlough because of Covid19?  Although that might jeopardise getting a redundancy payout if I found a job.

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

lincroft1710

If most being made redundant are under 30, and you are 54, hardly age discrimination. Also anyone with less than 2 yrs service is not entitled to any redundancy payment. So it will cost them money making you redundant. There is no point in dragging up what happened in the past, the time to have done that was at the time it happened. 

If there is nothing in your contract about redundancy payments then you will get the statutory minimum payment, you're not entitled to any more. The purpose of furlough is to avoid redundancy, not postpone it

p00hsticks

tawmjk said:

the company has been very closed mouth so far as to who is facing redundancy and where in the company they work claiming confidentiality so that I cannot know if the score was fair. 

As far as I'm aware the company is within its rights not to share the names of others made redundant with you, but you are certainly entitled to ask your employers for details of the selection criteria that they used to determine who should go and how you scored within that framework

https://www.acas.org.uk/manage-staff-redundancies/select-employees-for-redundancy