Sorry for the long post….So I started at a company in August 2024, everything has been great, I work in Payroll, I’m the only payroll employee & the only one qualified to do payroll. The company has 6 pay runs for over 250 employees and whilst I’m part of the wider finance team they don’t know where to even begin processing payroll.
5 weeks ago, my partner went into hospital for emergency surgery, at this point we were 6 weeks out from our wedding.
I got a call to say I was being made redundant, the role was being absorbed by the wider finance team.
11 others were made redundant, all of which have now left the business.
My notice period is 3 months, they’re making me work 9 weeks of which to train 6 other members of staff to do my job. None of which have payroll experience, therefore they all need a lot of guidance.
I am now 1 week away from my wedding, getting no sleep due to stress as my workload has tripled with meetings, calls, handovers, generating handover notes, writing how to guides for every step of my job, all whilst actually trying to do my job.
I had annual leave booked for 1 day, approved by my manager and I still had to respond to emails, teams messages, organise my diary for more handover meetings.
I agreed to the redundancy as I was stressed with my partner in surgery, our upcoming wedding, my daughters birthday and Christmas all coming up and I didn’t have the fight in me to argue reasons why they should keep me.
my question now is, has anybody been in a similar situation with redundancy when they’re having to train 6 others to do the role? Including a receptionist who has been dragged in as backup, bless her she’s never been so stressed in her life!
where would I stand in terms of going on the sick until the end of my 9 weeks? I’m entitled to company sick pay, would they still have to pay me etc?
Any advice to make the next few weeks bearable would be appreciated!! I’m not entitled to redundancy so I’m leaving with 3 weeks pay, it hardly even seems worth all the hassle!!
thanks in advance!