Voluntary Redundancy

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I'm looking for some advice please if anyone can help. I don't even know if this is possible.

I am Local Authority Admin and we have recently had a review where we have lost 10 members of Admin across the LA. The review is due again in 2014 and will result in 20 Admin job losses and a further review in 2015 to lose another 10. The LA are constantly asking for anyone to take VR or consider early retirement or part retirement. I have worked for the LA for about 17 years now and have considered taking VR as I hate it at work and had a rough 18 months.

The problem is my VR is based on my part time earnings and would equate to approx £4,000 which is absolutely nothing really.

The question I am asking is would I be able to suggest to HR that I will leave if they doubled the amount in the hope that they are so desperate for people to leave that they will pay it.

If so how would you go about it? Through the union or contact HR.

Any help anyone? I'm not greedy but I would like to leave with enough to support me till I find another job.

You can certainly ask. Difficult to see much incentive for them to pay double though; if they were that desperate for people to leave they could make compulsory redundancies which obviously wouldn't cost them that much...

Whether £4,000 is "absolutely nothing" depends how much you earn really doesn't it? It could be 6 months full pay for some part time admin jobs, which definitely isn't "nothing" in terms of a redundancy settlement.

Is the VR offer more than you'd get for compulsory redundancy where you are, or the same? Do you get more than the statutory minimum for compulsory redundancy?

If you want to sound them out I would arrange an appointment with the appropriate person in HR as a first port of call.