Redundancy - suitable alternative

[Roollie]

Hi,

I am being made redundant. Have been offered a fixed term contract with the redundancy payment deferred to the end of the fixed term unless a suitable alternative job is available at the time.

If a job came up that was suitable (I e. Salary, my skills etc) can just "not wanting the job" be grounds to decline? It is not clear when researching whether not wanting that specific role is an acceptable reason to decline.

I don't want to lose redundancy pay for this as I would decline all suitable alternatives unless it is the specific career direction I want to go which is unlikely. So think I might be better to accept the redundancy now instead of taking the fixed term.

Thank you for reading.

You will lose the right to redundancy pay if you decline a suitable alternative simply because you don't want it. There are a number of reasons for which you can decline without losing redundancy pay, e.g. the new role requires skills or qualifications you don't have. But simply not wanting the job is not a good reason.

I thought that was the case. Thank you.

I have the option to take redundancy now as no suitable alternative is currently available so I think that's what I will do.