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UPDATE
I have finally been told my role is redundant and been given written confirmation!
Such a relief. Now daunted but excited about entering the job hunting market again and dealing with agencies.
I was reading about serving counter-notice as my boss did indicate that they may withdraw the notice within the 12 week period if they can find a suitable alternative (it is a budget and workload issue causing the redundancy). Now I have my notice I don't want them to backtrack. I'm in no rush to find another job, thankfully. Is it worth serving counter-notice just to agree my last working day? To prevent this happening? I don't need to gave another job to do that do I?
Originally posted by Mrs Optimist
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Yes, you do need to have another job. If you want to do what you are suggesting, it's called resigning, not redundancy. You must understand that the employers legal duty is to
not make people redundant if there is any possible way to avoid it. And that is what they will do. So if they find got a suitable alternative job, you must take it or lose the redundancy. Unless you have another job AND can legally serve counter notice. It does have strict rules as to when it can be served.