Redundancy

Seanj123

Hi. So I work a large demo firm. Which has several sites throughout the country. On the 13 feb 4 sites were put on a “at risk of redundancy” notice. This was read out to us only. This added up to be around 50 people, on our site there was 10. 

In the letter it read out it went onto say we would be issued with a date and time for our 1/1 consultation and then went onto say this would end 16 March and we would be notified of our employment after that. Today 21 February without any further communication from hr/management etc the 10 on our site have all been issued with our final redundancy notice and to termination of employment. 

We’ve had nothing in writing or no 1/1 consultation prior , is this allowed? Or can they skip passed all this and end all employment? 

Markmywords

It doesn't sound right to me but I am no expert. I think they do need to consult you and you are entitled to your individual one to one consultation. Is there a trade union that can help you all with this? I think you are also allowed to be told how you were selected for redundancy and time off for finding an alternative job too. 

Undervalued

Seanj123 said:

Hi. So I work a large demo firm. Which has several sites throughout the country. On the 13 feb 4 sites were put on a “at risk of redundancy” notice. This was read out to us only. This added up to be around 50 people, on our site there was 10. 

In the letter it read out it went onto say we would be issued with a date and time for our 1/1 consultation and then went onto say this would end 16 March and we would be notified of our employment after that. Today 21 February without any further communication from hr/management etc the 10 on our site have all been issued with our final redundancy notice and to termination of employment. 

We’ve had nothing in writing or no 1/1 consultation prior , is this allowed? Or can they skip passed all this and end all employment? 

Very few things in English law have to be in writing. In most cases a verbal notice or agreement is just as valid, although obviously in the event of a dispute it is harder to proves what was said.

As far as I am aware this is not one of the few exceptions so I think you will struggle to successfully challenge the process for that reason.