My employer has refused my application for voluntary redundancy...

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Hello everyone.
I have been trying to understand the situation and getting in touch with citizen's advice and other channels that can help me and I thought of publishing a note here since there might be some comment to this post that can be helpful. My employer has asked us employees to make a decision wether we accept a permanent change to our contracts (70% pay and less working hours to correspond to that) or to submit our application for voluntary redundancy. Due to financial reasons, I cannot accept the new contract so I submitted my application which was refused without explanation. What are my options? I will refuse the contract change so will have give them reason to make me redundant (a compulsory redundancy) or will they have me working at 100% hours & pay.
Release this might be a difficult question to ask here, but any help is welcomed, specially because I know there might be people have might have been in a similar situation.
Thank you all.
I have been trying to understand the situation and getting in touch with citizen's advice and other channels that can help me and I thought of publishing a note here since there might be some comment to this post that can be helpful. My employer has asked us employees to make a decision wether we accept a permanent change to our contracts (70% pay and less working hours to correspond to that) or to submit our application for voluntary redundancy. Due to financial reasons, I cannot accept the new contract so I submitted my application which was refused without explanation. What are my options? I will refuse the contract change so will have give them reason to make me redundant (a compulsory redundancy) or will they have me working at 100% hours & pay.
Release this might be a difficult question to ask here, but any help is welcomed, specially because I know there might be people have might have been in a similar situation.
Thank you all.
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https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/rights-at-work/basic-rights-and-contracts/changes-to-employment-contracts-overview/
https://www.acas.org.uk/changing-an-employment-contract
If your position is genuinely redundant then you can be sent on your way just by paying the statutory required amounts.
Anything else is a mutually agreed separation, which is entirely a matter for negotiation. Until it is agreed, signed and sealed either party can pull out.
If you can't reach agreement and they impose then new terms, your only options are to either accept (which you will do by default if you do not positively reject them). Or you resign and claim unfair dismissal and it will be for a tribunal to decide if the new terms were reasonable or not. If you win you will get some compensation which may be more, but could be less than even statutory redundancy.
So the employer then gave them just 1 day a week? What sort of persuasion was that?