problems getting redundancy money, will they get away with this?

moretothegirl

I'm fairly sure there's nothing I can do at this stage but I just thought I'd post a message here to see if anyone had any advice just in case...

Basically I worked in a business up until the end of September but the section I worked in was closed so had to leave. They never sent out my p45 and I have been trying to get it off them for ages now as I have started a new job now. I was also trying to get redundancy off them as I enquired and found out that I am entitled to it.

Now this week I rang again to get tough with them as it is now February and they tell me that they had actually left a message for me in October telling me that they would have hours for me in a different area of the business. This is bull, no such message ever existed. Now they are saying that they have hours for me down there.

Am I right in saying that they are going to get away with not giving me my redundancy now?

ShooterSF

I'm by far no expert on this but considering no one else has replied and it might catch the eye of someone more in the know my opinion would be that your previous contract with them was terminated and as such you are due redundancy. If they offered hours after that it was as a new employee and you shouldn't HAVE to take it.
Just the same way if you worked for a year, left for a new job and then came back and worked a year I wouldn't expect you to get redundancy.

But that's looking at it logically rather than legally. Maybe ask Citizen's Information for more help..

Clauric

I would suggest NERA, the LRC and Dept of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation (Redundancy Section)