Originally Posted by
Hussar 54
Doesn't the UK Government have a 'Fund ' for employee redundancies when there's nothing left in the pot ?
It certainly used to have - and I got some money out of it once.
The weekly amount was capped at not-a-lot more than benefit level, and the period paid for was the legal minimum notice period which in my case was four weeks rather than the three months notice it said in my contract. So basically that came to the equivalent of four weeks' dole money, maybe around a tenth in total of the redundancy money owed.
Which did come in handy, because I lost a week's dole money ... because I signed on a day late ... because I'd spent the previous day
at a job interview: apparently this is bad behaviour for which you're fined.