statutory redundancy pay for end of fixed-term contract?

[maybenow]

Ok, i know this sounds REALLY cheeky but i've been with my current employer for nearly seven years, four and a half have been on my current fixed term contract which was supposed to be till july 2011 then extended till the end of jan 2012.

My contract will not be renewed. Now i always just thought that was my tough luck for not being 'permanent' but it seems from this website: www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Understandingyourworkstatus/Fixedtermworkers/DG_175138 it seems that after failing to renew a fixed term contract means i am entitled to statutory redundancy pay.

This would be REALLY helpful to houshold finances as i've currently only secured work for 2days a week after the end of jan (i am available to work full time)...

Does anybody know of a situation where anybody has actually recieved stat redundancy pay after failure to renew a fixed term contract?

thanks.

Not remotely cheeky. If your post expires and isn't renewed and there is nothing else for you, you are redundant. Aside from that, you are now permanent as you've been continously employed for more than 4 years on renewed fixed term contracts.

Presumably there is a valid reason for not renewing your contract again?

You are entitled to a payment, the termination of a fixed-term contract is in fact a redundancy. The fact that you have been employed on a succession of FTCs for more than four years gives you the right to assert permanency, but your employer may continue to employ you on a fixed-term basis if an objective justification exists.
Ask why your contract is not being renewed.

If your organisation offers more than statutory redundancy pay SRP (ie contractual redundancy pay) you will probably be entitled to that instead of just SRP.

We have to pay stat redundancy to anyone who finishes fixed term contract of more than 1 year, even if they are going straight into another job elsewhere.

phew! that's really good news and the money will really help - i guess it might be more than srp as there's a voluntary exit scheme on now anyway but even srp is better than a kick in the teeth as they say.

i won't be renewed because they'll say the job i was employed to do is now done. and also with a voluntary exit scheme in place right now they're looking for staff savings due to govt cuts anyway.

i'm so used to being screwed around with fixed term contracts in my field of work that this is very good news indeed (btw. i still haven't had any 'notice' of my departure but i assume this will be sent on 31 december, four weeks before the contract ends).

off to look up what srp is now... think maybe a week for every year? something like that?

thanks.

I got screwed over in your situation - because I was on a series of fixed term contracts and they were not continuous (i.e. one would finish in July and the next would begin in Sept - I am a teacher), even though I had been with the same employer for several years, I was entitled to very little because my employment hadn't been continuous. They gave me a token payout but it was really just a gesture.

Hope you have better luck!

There's a calculator here:
www.direct.gov.uk/redundancy.dsb

And as everyone else has said, yes the non-renewal of a fixed term contract is equivalent to redundancy.

yes I got redundancy pay at the end of a 3yr fixed term post - came in handy as I went on maternity leave just before the contract ended (and I had a new job to go to 6 month after baby born)