Redundancy help

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My mum has been working at a supermarket for 39 years. She is now at risk of redundancy. she is currently on a 29 hour a week contract. They have been told to apply for jobs that were released last week. The jobs released last week were all 12 hour a week jobs with terrible overnight hours nothing like her current contract. She has been told if she doesn’t apply for one of these jobs she’s ruling herself out of redundancy. She has had no formal one to one with anyone to talk her through the process.
Can anyone advise her rights if she doesn’t apply for a new job as they are not suitable.
We are confused as to what to advise her to do.
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Employers, especially large employers, love getting staff to apply for jobs. The minute your mother applies for a job she can't then claim its not suitable.
Anyone who tells her she will lose redundancy rights by not applying is wrong. If there were alternative jobs available for everyone, and those jobs were either suitable or of marginal suitability then she might be pushed into applying as the pragmatic alternative to unemployment. But that isn't the case here.
To be clear, my advice is not to apply for anything and stand her ground.
Disclaimer - I am not a lawyer.
Darren
Eat properly
Sleep properly
Save some money
if the OP’s mum does nothing, then she will be served 30 days termination of contract notice and made redundant. during the notice period, the employer may provide PILON or Gardening leave depending on nature of the role. During the notice period the employer MUST provide adequate paid leave for employees to job hunt and attend interviews, this is not a lot of time though.
anything over £30,000 is subjected to tax and may require sign off from a solicitor.
i have been through a management restructure with a large supermarket and chose not to apply for any positions and I made myself redundant so I have first hand experience (2018) of the processes and procedures that took place with the large scale redundancy process within that company.
Jan = £715 / £1,000 Feb = £1,275 Mar = £400 (fallen behind will make up in April)
Apr = £ May = £ Jun = £
Oct = £ Nov = £ Dec = £