Dh was made redundant at the end of oct. He had an e-mailed letter, but it spelt his name wrong, and miscalculated his rendancy pay, stating it was roughly this, but in actual fact becasue he is over 41, he gets extra. he e-mailed and asked for it to be corrected. Asked for a paper copy of headed paper.
As yet, despite asking, this has not been provided.
At the end of Oct, salary was not paid. MD said the "the bank had said they were bankrupt". I told dh that this was meaningless, becasue no bank can declare this. there is a process. they may not have any money, but I thought this was factually incorrect.
But eventually, after many phonecalls, dh got his money. ont he friday, as it should have been.
His staff, the pickers, ( who pick orders and despatch)were livid, becasue they were not paid on the last friday, but were on the monday. some has since walked out.
Very odd, becasue the e-mail of dh's letter, asked him to stay at home, on an on-call-basis for his notice period. This was fine for dh. He applied for jobs, and has an interview this friday. made me shepherds pie. !! they cut off his e-mail and kind of sensibly logged him out of his administrative ( thus you full rights to do anything on the system). this left him with nothing to do, for them, at home for a week.
But 2 days ago. the last picker walked. they called dh in to pick orders. an ops manager , doing the picking. but hey ho.
But what dh says is they should pay him , this friday for the 2 weeks he has done. Given the history, his concerns that they won't pay him,are reasonable.
Before he was at home, on call for a month, which was his notice period. but now he has to go into the warehouse and do 3 weeks picking, with no gaurantees that at the end of nov he will be paid his months salary or the £1600 roughly statutory redundancy.
They don't respond to e-mails or phone calls. can he threaten not to go in on monday if they don't pay him , on friday for the 2 weeks work he has done.
he was e-mailed to ask:
- paper copy correct redundancy letter.
- paid for the 2 weeks work he has done, on friday.
name the date that his final 2 weeks money will be paid. what date redundancy payment be made.
do they have to pay him his notice period, even if he refuses to work ? prob not.
But he has no guarantees.
He could work next 2 weeks, get to the end of the month and them pay him nothing. no nov salary or no redundancy.
Then he will have lost nearly £5k.
We don't know what to do.
Please advise.