Company in liquidation and redundancy

d0nkeyk0ng · 17 December 2017 at 9:13PM

My mother's workplace has closed and gone into liquidation. She was there for 15 years as an employee. Everyone was given two days' notice and my mother was on holiday at the time. She was informed by friends/word of mouth. She's 61 so too young to retire and draw state pension.

What's the next best step?
Can she claim statutory redundancy?
Is she eligible for anything else?

sangie595 · 17 December 2017 at 11:31PM

There should be an insolvency practitioner / liquidator. she needs to contact them and they will provide the forms she needs to claim payments from the RPS, which can include notice pay, untaken holidays and wages as well as redundancy payments.

lulu650 · 18 December 2017 at 12:20AM

All info is here for a starting point; https://www.gov.uk/your-rights-if-your-employer-is-insolvent

A claim can also be made if the employer did not consult with staff but there needs to be 20 employees or more being made redundant.

d0nkeyk0ng · 18 December 2017 at 9:50AM

Thanks all. More than 20 people were employed so not a tiny business.

superbigal36 · 18 December 2017 at 1:24PM

The employment tribunal award which would undoubtedly be won would not benefit the OP
Her length of service payments from the govt fund would exceed any entitlement they would pay on a protected award. The award would be 90 days gross. As memory serves they pay up to a maximum of 8 weeks minus any weeks already paid.
This award will however benefit people with service of between 2-8 years in general.
It only needs one person to claim for the group.

Of course this assumes the liquidation has no assets to pay wages/ET claims etc.

d0nkeyk0ng · 19 December 2017 at 9:00AM

Spoken to mum. It was 15 not 25 years, and she still had five days' paid leave left. We've been sent forms from the liquidators for claims.

patman99 · 1 January 2018 at 8:10PM

She needs to start a benefit claim as soon as she can. At least then she will still. Be getting her NI contributions accredited for pension purposes.

It could take a while for her to get a redundancy payout from the Govt scheme, so she needs to make sure she has money coming in now.

badmemory · 1 January 2018 at 10:56PM

She should get 6 months contribution based JSA so start it online asap. She will get this from the date she starts the online process & will need to do a face to face interview at a later date. She should get 22.5 weeks (untaxed) statutary redundancy too. That is 1.5 weeks per year due to her being over 40 for all the years. The holiday pay should be paid too. Hopefully she should be fine for at least 6 months - probably nine if she's careful.

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