To have a rant about my redundancy

[MaybeMaybeNotJ]

So I worked for this company for six years. 18 months of that I was on maternity leave (two lots of 9 months).
I was treated like a moron after each maternity leave and was told “I’d become more emotional” since having my children and before I’d been “top of my game”.
First mat leave they didn’t replace me and didn’t do anything I’d asked them to cover. Second mat leave they employed someone and kept her on. Moved me into a new role sold to me as “utilising my skills” turned out to be bullshit.

Replacement then left and I did my old job and my new job and asked for more money for doing so. They said yes but made it clear they weren’t happy I’d asked.

I was always the last one leaving the office and putting the effort in.

Cue Covid. I worked from home for a week and then I was asked how it was. I admitted it was hard with two kids. They furloughed me. I told them I could come back when nurseries opened again in June I think it was. They asked for a zoom call and told me my role had been “redistributed in my absence”.

So all in all it’s just pissed me off a bit because today I got my P45 in the post and have had no acknowledgment at all of my 6 years of dedicated working.
Maybe I was hoping for too much.

No real point to this sorry but just needed to write it all down.

That’s better 😊

Feel free to hit me with your stories or redundancy or annoying employers.

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I am sorry, they sound like an absolute shower!

Have you got colleagues you've kept in touch with? Can be useful for LinkedIn and other networking - your six years are as much yours as what the company got out of them too 💐

Are you a trade union member?

Have you considered whether you might be able to claim unfair dismissal ie because it's not a genuine redundancy and/or they haven't followed the proper process?

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/leaving-a-job/redundancy/check-if-your-redundancy-is-fair/make-sure-your-redundancy-is-genuine/

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/leaving-a-job/redundancy/check-if-your-redundancy-is-fair/fair-redundancy-process/

I'd give Acas a call if I were youX

Thank you both
I did look into it and because they are a small company they didn't have to jump through too many hoops and it was all technically done correctly I think.

It was as if a switch was flicked from employee as part of the family firm to ex employee.
They even asked everyone what I'd been saying after I cleared my desk.

I had a leaving drink which I organised with a few of the guys there.

That's bloody shit way to be treated op.

They still have to jump through one or two hoops, op. Did they notify you that you were at risk? How did they decide the pool of at risk employees (may have needed to include others). Did they consult with you?

That's an awful way to be treated. Sadly I fear people with caring responsibilities will be targeted, particularly by smaller companies when job cuts occur.

I hope you find something suitable that you would enjoy soon

I hope you got redundancy pay?? Why don’t you put up a fight, that seems totally unfair? I would think unfair dismissal if everything you say is true.

They gave me notice and said they were going through a consultancy period but that unless figures miraculously went up I'd be gone.
Not a single other employee was told anything about it and no one else was told we were in a consultation period. To be honest I didn't right it because it made me realise that they weren't nice people and I thought I'd take the money and run.

Thanks for your replies everyone. I have a job now luckily but only a couple of hours a day whereas I was four full days a week.

Sorry to hear OP, they have treated you badly and, I suspect, not fully legally as there is usually a consultation document and all staff are aware.
If you don’t want to pursue anything against them, then be glad you’re rid of them. Don’t do handovers or helpful advice for anyone taking over the role and I hope your new job works out well for you.

Yes this doesn't sound legal.

Did they pay you redundancy?

Btw if it's less than 3 months since it happened (which it sounds like it is) you can still file an employment law claim - might be worth it.

My employer waited until three days after my brother died in an accident to offer me an interview the following morning for an alternative position that amounted to being unavailable for any other work during the day in exchange for 3 hours. And 'forgot' to post the invitation, so when I came back after five days, I found it in my pigeonhole, along with the other letter informing me that my job was definitely being made redundant.

I went for an interview around the time of the funeral. Got offered it, accepted it, didn't tell them and they didn't ask. They then made me work until the very last second, having decided to screw me out of a month's wages by terminating on the last day of term instead of the union agreed date of 31st August.

Unfortunately for them, that meant I qualified for a full redundancy payment, as my new contract started from 1st September. After I checked my bank account, I told them about the new job and watched somebody adopt the finest example of a cat's bum mouth I've ever seen. I then worked the last couple of hours of shit as people partied, dumped the equipment just inside the door instead of staying behind to pack up, tidy up and leave the place sparkling as I always had to, handed my pass and keys to the caretaker and walked out the front door with a beer bottle in each hand and a fag in my mouth.

Cost them thousands to be arseholes, it did.

Can't help wishing I'd used the sicknote the GP had given me, though. I was just worried it might backfire on me if I needed to look for another job quickly.

@MitziK

My employer waited until three days after my brother died in an accident to offer me an interview the following morning for an alternative position that amounted to being unavailable for any other work during the day in exchange for 3 hours. And 'forgot' to post the invitation, so when I came back after five days, I found it in my pigeonhole, along with the other letter informing me that my job was definitely being made redundant.

I went for an interview around the time of the funeral. Got offered it, accepted it, didn't tell them and they didn't ask. They then made me work until the very last second, having decided to screw me out of a month's wages by terminating on the last day of term instead of the union agreed date of 31st August.

Unfortunately for them, that meant I qualified for a full redundancy payment, as my new contract started from 1st September. After I checked my bank account, I told them about the new job and watched somebody adopt the finest example of a cat's bum mouth I've ever seen. I then worked the last couple of hours of shit as people partied, dumped the equipment just inside the door instead of staying behind to pack up, tidy up and leave the place sparkling as I always had to, handed my pass and keys to the caretaker and walked out the front door with a beer bottle in each hand and a fag in my mouth.

Cost them thousands to be arseholes, it did.

Can't help wishing I'd used the sicknote the GP had given me, though. I was just worried it might backfire on me if I needed to look for another job quickly.

Wow good on you!

@LittleMissTeacup

Sorry to hear OP, they have treated you badly and, I suspect, not fully legally as there is usually a consultation document and all staff are aware. If you don’t want to pursue anything against them, then be glad you’re rid of them. Don’t do handovers or helpful advice for anyone taking over the role and I hope your new job works out well for you.

The first any of the others heard was when an email went round saying I was being made redundant.

@SebastianTheCrab

Yes this doesn't sound legal.

Did they pay you redundancy?

Yes they did and paid me notice and didn't even want me in to do a hand over. I've only been in to clear my desk. It's very odd.

I just didn't think it was worth taking it further when it's obvious they're knobs

God OP that sounds shit. Sorry you have been treated that way.