UK redundancy payout whilst on overseas assignment

[marcusjames]

A friend was recently made redundant in Switzerland. She was treated as an expat, paid through UK payroll, for 7 years. Although she was on an UK contract, she has been told she is not entitled to UK redundancy as she has been overseas for longer than 5 years (apparently this is an EU ruling). Therefore she's entitled to the statutory notice period in Switzerland.

I work with a number of Belgians, French, Dutch etc that would be very nervous if they realised they are not entitled to their 1+ year's redundancy pay.

Can someone confirm this.

Thanks

[zollburgers]

I can confirm that the Dutch would be nervous, I'm not so sure about the French?