Input needed Re: dh's redundancy

[Fio2]

as some of you know my dh is being made rendant at the end of this month (july) When the company announced they were closing all employees were told they could take paid leave to go to interviews. A couple of weeks ago my husband had to have 2 interview slips signed by the HR person and she refused saying if he wanted to go to them he would have to have unpaid leave. He took about 8-10 hours off. He was not happy about this and reported the matter to the works council.

Today his payslip has arrived in the post and there is a vast chunk taken out of it in unpaid leave. pressumably they have taken ALL his interviews off as unpaid leave instead of just these 2. We are not happy, dh is talking to the HR people and works council as we speak. Usually they give him his payslip at work but this time it was sent through the post.

Where do we stand on this though? Do they HAVE to reimburse the money?

We came doiown here on a 5 year contract (over 200 miles) and 2 weeks after we moved here they announced the company were closing. Dh was advised by the works council to tak it to an industrial tribunal, but we really dont want to get involved in all that. Why asre they being so unreasonable? and what can we do about it?

Fio, I had no idea - I am so sorry What a nightmare. I also have no advice and no magic wand to wave - just hope things get sorted and that dh can find another job soon without you having to re-locate again. What *rseholes

moo he has got another job and we are having to relocate again, but the job is much much better and it is a lovely part of the country so although the short-term will be hard, long term it will be better iykwim. Thank you for the sympathy!

oh well good luck for today

It doesn't matter whether the agreement over payment for interviews was in writing or was verbal. It still forms a contract. If one party changes their position (e.g. goes to interviews) on the basis that the other party has agreed something (e.g. they will pay for interviewing time), then the second party cannot then renege on that deal. If they had said that and then changed their minds before anyone had acted upon what they said, then that would be a different story.

really freckle? I will tell dh. They did change their minds but that was before he 2 interviews and he took those interviews on the basis the he wouldnt be paid for the time off for those particular ones, not the rest he had been too. I think they are just trying to save money, they announced yesterday that they were making a further 70 poeple redundant at another one of their sites it's just awful how companies fire people nowadays, its not just one or two people its loads

Thanks LMB

well they reimbursed him nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!

why am I not suprised????

Your dh can then pursue them either through an employment tribunal or the small claims court for breach of contract.