Nanny Redundancy

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I have been made redundant - leaving work 6th April, so have to make my part-time nanny/housekeeper redundant, as I do not know how long it will take me to find another job.

We warned her last year that this was on the cards and I have now confirmed this verbally with her.

Do I need to give her a written redundancy notice, and what redundancy pay is she entitled to? (She has been with us since Sept 2004, working 3 afternoons/week).

so she has been with you for 6 whole years.

You therefor have to give her 6 weeks notice, in writing, and she will be entitiled to 6 weeks gross pay, tax free.

If you do it today she will finish on April 18th

If she has any holiday left you will need to pay her that too, or get her to finish before 18th april, but she will remain employed by youn until that date assuming her holiday year runs from september she will have accumlated about 2.3 weeks so far so 6.9 days / aka 7 days.
If she has had more than 7 days holiday since sept, then you can take the pay for these back

Thanks nannyl - I hadn't realised that quite so many weeks' notice was required (we had 4 weeks written in to her contract - hadn't realised the statutory period was 1 week/year up to 12 weeks).

I've also been on the directgov website and realised I will have to pay her 9 weeks pay (1.5 weeks/year) as she is over 40 (she is in her 60's.)

Holiday should work out about right, as she has had two weeks off already & can have the remaining day as part of her 'garden leave' after April 6th.

why 6 weeks notice - surely whatever the notice is what is in the contract?

i was going to mention age as its 1.5 times wages if over 40, but you have already done that

do you want to find another job, ie it is worth leaving telling nanny for a few weeks, rather than get rid of her and then need to re hire (as you will need to ask old nanny/hk first legally before employing someone else)or are you def giving up work

Hi Blonde - I checked the directgov website after nannyl's post, and statutory notice of redundancy is 1 week for every year worked, up to 12 weeks (or whatever's in the contract, if longer)

Keeping our nanny on is not really an option as I will probably be looking for temp/contract work. Also, youngest DC is now 14, so the role was more housekeeper than nanny & not really needed for much longer anyway.

i didnt know that about redundancy - is that new, when i left my last job i got 4 weeks notice, but i was there 5yrs (this was years ago so things may have changed)

Redundancy rule has been around for ages, Id guess a lot more than5 years.

we all have legal minimum contract rights, and we cant make the contract less than whats legal (though can make it more). Same with holiday... we can have more than 5.6 weeks, but if less is written into contract we are still allowed 5.6 weeks

after 2 years, until 12 years you get a weeks notice for every whole year worked (and and employees need to give a weeks notice for every whole year worked too).

If you have been there more than 12 years, you are only obliged to give 12 weeks notice.

So after 8 years, 8 years notice, regardless of what contract says etc

8 weeks notice even, not 8 years lol!