Anyone out there can help with employment / redundancy law?

[loujay]

D Sis in process of being made redundant.
Has been given a leaving date of 18th Jan. Has now just been told that she will only be paid 2 weeks wages when she leaves (for the 2 weeks worked in Jan) and will not be paid anything else for 6 weeks!!! Surely this cannot be right? She is panicking about mortgage, bill etc.........HELP!!

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Has DS got an employment contract?
What was her start date?
What is her notice period under the contract?
Has she been continuously employed by same employer for entire length of contract? (maternity leave included of course)
How old is she?

If you can give me her area (vaguish naturally e.g. NW London or Northampton etc) will have a look for CABs/free advice lines etc she should consult.

How long has she worked there? You can get lots of info online but I think what you are entitled to depends on length of service and age. Statutory redundancy is £380 for every year you have worked there, but I think you need to gave been employed for two years (but not totally sure about that). Do they mean she will not get her redundancy pay until the next pay round? Why is she being made redundant? How many people are being made redundant? Have heremployers gone through a consultation process with her?

Hi!!
Yes to employment contract
Start date was 16 + years ago
Notice period is 3 months (not contractual apparently even though it is in contract )
Yes to continuous employment
37 years old

Do you mean she will be getting her notice pay and redundancy pay but just not for 6 weeks, or do you mean they are not intending on paying it her at all?

Have they consulted her over being made redundant? She needs to check her contract of employment or staff handbook in relation to all this. She us entitled to a proper redundancy payment.

They are paying her 2 weeks money this month and then no more money for 6 weeks.
They have also decided that she will get her redundancy pay in 6 weeks, then her pay in lieu of notice end of April.
So basically she will have 2 weeks wages to live on for 6 weeks

I don't know about the legalities of the time frames for paying her money out, but she should contact her mortgage company and any credit cards/loans she might have and inform them she's being made redundant - they may be willling to push back payment dates

She has had consultation, and was told originally that her leaving date was between 31st Jan and 31st March. Now they have brought forward the date of leaving.
As far as the redundancy payment goes, originally she agreed to have it payes in next payroll following her leaving date.

If they are going to pay her all her redundancy and notice entitlements but just a few weeks late, there's probably nothing realistically she can do tbh. If there's something in her contract about when she should be paid it's possible they will be in breach of contract for the notice pay element, but realistically by the time she's raised a grievance and taken steps to recover the money, she'll have received it, so no point taking any action.

Thanks for replies. We are looking over all the contract / redundancy paperwork again, and she plans to go in tomorrow and raise some issues.
Just seems a bit shocking for a large (and I do mean large) company to be able to move goal posts like this!!

Well it is wrong, but if it's only a few weeks, although devastating for her it's a very short time in the scheme of things so it's pointless doing anything other than complaining to them - there's no legal action or complaint she could reasonably make in that timescale.