Gardening leave and redundancy

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How does this work together. Are you paid for three months notice like normal but don’t go in, then get a package?

That was exactly how it worked for me, yes.

Thank you I think maybe on cards for DH. Having a mindless google over coffee and seemed to say was pay in lieu or gardening and I couldn’t work out the difference!

When I've seen this done, pay in lieu you leave the company straight away and are marked as having left so you get your redundancy package and the notice pay on that months pay date, gardening leave you are still an employee for the period of notice but don't actually work, you get paid your normal pay till the end of the notice period then the final pay is your redundancy package.

So there has been a difference.

Yes. I work in banking and this is how it works for anyone in front office or related roles.

You are still employed by the company until the period finishes, paid but at home. You can’t start anywhere else until the period is finished.

DH got the payment in one lump when he was made redundant. When I’ve left normally, it’s been paid monthly as usual.

You'd get paid monthly for 3 months and didn't need to go into work but as you are still employed you could be requested to. At the end of the gardening leave you'd get your redundancy in a lump sum in your final pay.

I had gardening leave starting in a November and it was shit being off work during the winter months.

Hi, yes that how it works. You are given notice of redundancy and you are entitled to your statutory or contractual notice, whichever is greater and (depending on what's written in your contract) your employer can either

• make you work your notice
• put you on garden leave, where you are still an employee but don't need to work
• or pay you in lieu of your noice, where you leave immediately, are no longer an employee but get paid a sum equivalent to your notice pay

In all situations you would still receive your statutory redundancy pay.