Redundancy advice

Do you have a contract of employment?

Has the employer told you that they are terminating your contract of employment?

When did the employer tell you they were terminating your contract of employment?

What does your contract of employment say about the notice that the employer needs to give you if they want to end your contract? Regardless of what the contract says, your employer must give you two weeks notice to terminate your contract.

What does your contract of employment say about where you work and where the employer can ask you to work? If the contract says you work at Office A, and the nothing else, then the employer should be making you and everyone who works at Office A (on the same contract) redundant. If the employer has offered some people jobs at the new office, they must have followed a fair process to select who was offered these roles. If this is the situation, you should ask, in writing, for the details of how people were selected to be offered these roles.

If the contract says you work at Office A but can be asked to work in an area that would include Office B, then you still work them at office B if there are jobs there for everyone. If they need less people at Office B, they need to make you redundant, following a fair process to make you redundant.

Basically, they should be making you redundant. If you have been dismissed and the employer has not followed a fair process, you can make a claim for unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal. There is a deadline to do so and you need to have followed the ACAS Early Conciliation process before you can go to a Tribunal. Have a read of this link for information on the Early Conciliation process: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4028

The deadline for going to ACAS is three months since you last day of employment.

You could also accept that you have been dismissed, make sure you are paid for your notice period and get another job. Before accepting you have been dismissed try, by writing to your employer, to get something in writing to confirm your contract of employment has been ended.

You might also go to a local Citizens Advice to check whether there is anything else you can do.

You might also want to start keeping notes about exactly when things happened so that you are clear on the dates.