Redundancy and new job

purpleparrotuk

There are going to be possible redundancies at my work place. We are in consultations at the moment but it is very likely some of us will be going. Because I have been worried about losing my job and I am on furlough at the moment I have managed to find alternative employment. Will I be able to request voluntary redundancy or shall I just hand my notice in? My new job need to know when I can start so I will have to let my old company know one way or the other. 

lincroft1710

If your current employer finds out you have a new job, they won't be offering you voluntary redundancy, neither will you be on the list of those people to be made formally redundant. Simplest just to hand in your resignation

purpleparrotuk

lincroft1710 said:

If your current employer finds out you have a new job, they won't be offering you voluntary redundancy, neither will you be on the list of those people to be made formally redundant. Simplest just to hand in your resignation

Yes. I  agree. Pity I will lose out on quite a bit of pay but don’t want to be sneaky about it. Just want to get on with my life. 

RobM99

lincroft1710 said:

If your current employer finds out you have a new job, they won't be offering you voluntary redundancy, neither will you be on the list of those people to be made formally redundant. Simplest just to hand in your resignation

Disagree. It's the position that's redundant; the person is irrelevant.

lincroft1710

RobM99 said:

lincroft1710 said:

If your current employer finds out you have a new job, they won't be offering you voluntary redundancy, neither will you be on the list of those people to be made formally redundant. Simplest just to hand in your resignation

Disagree. It's the position that's redundant; the person is irrelevant.

I am perfectly aware it is the job not the person. But it doesn't matter how pedantic you want to be, the employer can work it so that the OP's name is not on the redundancy list. If you need to lose 5 employees and one wants to leave because they have a new job, then you only need to make 4 redundant and you save on redundancy payout

sharpe106

purpleparrotuk said:

lincroft1710 said:

If your current employer finds out you have a new job, they won't be offering you voluntary redundancy, neither will you be on the list of those people to be made formally redundant. Simplest just to hand in your resignation

Yes. I  agree. Pity I will lose out on quite a bit of pay but don’t want to be sneaky about it. Just want to get on with my life. 

You are not really losing out on anything if you have a new job to go to.

purpleparrotuk

sharpe106 said:

purpleparrotuk said:

lincroft1710 said:

If your current employer finds out you have a new job, they won't be offering you voluntary redundancy, neither will you be on the list of those people to be made formally redundant. Simplest just to hand in your resignation

Yes. I  agree. Pity I will lose out on quite a bit of pay but don’t want to be sneaky about it. Just want to get on with my life. 

You are not really losing out on anything if you have a new job to go to.

Sorry I meant redundancy money. I’ve been there quite a while. But yes. At least I have a new job. 

sharpe106

 You may not be one of the ones made redundant anyway, so there no point thinking off it as lost money. You could also think of it that you have saved somebody else’s job for them, If you leave one less person the company needs to get rid of.