To ask how much you recieved in redundancy pay

Anything between statutory minimum and £40k depending on how much they wanted to buy my silence.

The latter was after they 'made me redundant' first day back after maternity leave, having given my job (head of dept) to the sales director's wife. And they only paid out, four days before the tribunal hearing.

Good luck OP, I hope they treat you well.

My DS aged 36 received 11 weeks pay for 11 service plus 10 weeks PILON.

My DH received almost a years salary which was enhanced redundancy pay and three months PILON.

I took voluntary redundancy after 6 years. 1 month salary for every year worked plus a bonus of 3 months salary (it was a VR scheme so the extra was offered as an incentive). So 6 months salary. I figured that was long enough to find something else and jumped at it.

Have they gone through the process? What have they told you about what you'll be entitled to?

Sorry to hear your company is making your role redundant. Having been through it post covid, it is a tough time and can knock your confidence. Be gentle with yourself and take some time out to prioritise your own well being at the beginning. After my initial period of feeling like I’d failed and was a complete loser, I’m now in a job I love, earning more and has opened up far more opportunity. Sending lots of positivity your way 😀

There’s a government redundancy calculator who can check for redundancy pay. Sorry to hear this.

My husband was made redundant in December in a similar field of work. He had only been there since May and received 3.5 months full pay. We were very relieved. Sorry your going through it. Its very stressful. It hit us just as I was entering in to the zero pay part of my maternity leave

Some years ago I got over a year's pay, once I got the tax back. This was a good company scheme, over 11 years in the job (mostly over age 40), Pay In Lieu Of Notice, holiday leave etc.

I would get 24 months but then I have been with my employer for years!

I wasn’t there long enough for statutory redundancy, but I still got paid 6 months salary. They also let me keep some of the kit they bought me for my home office, paid for my prof subs (just coincidence it was due at the time) and I had 6 months access to Udemy which they let me keep.
I thought I did pretty well out of it.

Everywhere is different, you will soon find out what’s on offer. Unless the process hasn’t been followed legally, you probably won’t have much opportunity to negotiate anything better.

Been in a similar situation three times. Got between 2-6 months pay. If you get ‘gardening leave’ check what your situation would be with regards to starting work with a new employer. If you’re in demand you could walk straight into another job.

The company I work for has a different approach each time it comes around.

This year they were offering 6 months pay if you took voluntary and statutory minimum if they had to go to a compulsory process.

Last year it was statutory minimum for both compulsory & voluntary (so no point volunteering!).

@Paulsinpieces if your role is being moved over seas, is it something you could do remotely? If so you might be entitled to be TUPE’d across to that department or organisation.
you need to do more research and ask more questions …. But this is a key question to ask !!

£83k, took £30k tax free, put the rest in my pension. Got a new job on same money straight away.

You can ask for additional things - see if they will pay for support to help you with employment, I’ve previously been allowed to keep a laptop that they’ve wiped etc.

Basic is notice period (might be gardening leave so you get pay but don’t have to work) plus a week pay per year worked but it’s capped.

dh’s organisation offered that plus 2.5 with no cap.

I received a month per year of work plus 3 months notice. It was just over 8k which was great back in 2009 as I walked into another job.

I got 4 weeks per year worked. I had been there 14 years.

It's likely that you'll just get statutory if there is no policy/ nothing in your contract.

Sorry!

Sorry to hear that .. When I was made redundant I got statutory redundancy pay + 1 weeks pay for every year I had been with the Company.

If no redundancy policy or info given then I’d say with almost certainty that all you’ll get is statutory OP, which with only 2 years service will be rubbish, probably 2 weeks pay max.

There seems to be a lot of people getting very generous voluntary redundancy / enhanced packages. In my experience these are very rare unless you work in large organisations or local government so just be realistic with your expectations!

If you're going to be made redundant the best you can hope in your circumstances is for is that you get put on gardening leave so you're paid for the rest of your notice period, plus statutory redundancy and any unused AL, but are not expected to attend work so are free to start looking elsewhere or take a break.

But YABU to ask what others would get. In the vanishingly unlikely circumstances I was made redundant, I'd walk away with over £100k, as others have in the past from our organisation, which doesn't help you.

You'll get whatever company policy is