What would you do regarding redundancy?

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DH is being made redundant thanks to COVID. It's crap.
The company are meant to be trying to find jobs for them but not everyone will get one. They are also messing them around with the jobs causing further upset. Not going into it but partly because of this DH says he just wants to take the redundancy. His payment would equal about 6 months pay. So quite a good payment. DH is a much more positive person than me and I think he is seeing £ signs with the payment. I agree if he took the payment and got another job within a couple of months it would be a very good outcome.

However I just feel the situation at the minute is dire and he might not get a job as quick as he thinks. He says he would happily take a pay cut for a temporary time. But I don't think he is fully appreciating that even low paid jobs are in short supply.

I think it's best to add I work part time and I have worked out my wage plus benefits we could claim means we would be able to pay our bills with very little left.

I know he isnt guaranteed a job and probably won't get one but I do think he should at least go for them.WWYD? Am I too negative ?TIA

We are in similar position but don't want redundancy as we're both terrified there won't be other jobs

How employable is he? Does he have a varied skill set? Is he near retirement age? What is the local area like for job options?

No he is not near retirement age. He has worked his way up with the company and done well over the years. He had found jobs to apply for but isn't even getting interviews when to me he has the skill set. I feel a lot of people must be going for these jobs.

I don’t think you’re being too negative. It’s much much easier to get a job if you still have a job. I know the money must be tempting, but I personally would be doing anything I could do get one of the alternate jobs.

Having said that, I’m not a particularly emotionally resilient person, and know that the mental load of absolutely having to get another job would break me. If he is generally quite emotionally resilient and could mentally handle the pressure of getting another job while out of work then maybe he would deal with it well.

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No he is not near retirement age. He has worked his way up with the company and done well over the years. He had found jobs to apply for but isn't even getting interviews when to me he has the skill set. I feel a lot of people must be going for these jobs.

The fact he is not getting interviews would concern me, does he not see it as a potential issue? Has he applied to some of the places he reckons he would take as a back up?

Can you up your hours?

He is Mr positive so no at the minute it isn't getting to him. He has had one interview but they said they would have needed him to start straight away if he got the job. That would have meant he would have lost his redundancy for a much lower paid job.

It's very unlikely I can up my hours we are actually working less than normal at the minute.