Redundancy advice

[andy-xr]

BucksFizz said:

My employer has to give me 8 weeks notice but as of yet they can't decide if they want me to work my notice or not, my contract states they reserve the right to pay in lieu of notice.

The thing is I really don't want to work my notice, who in their mind right would? Just this week other people have been let go and have been PILON.

My problem is I have a job interview coming up and if I am successful they would like me to start as soon as possible, a 2 month wait my jeopardise my chances and of course if I resign (4 week notice my side) I'll do myself out of the redundancy payment.

Not a great situation.

May affect your PILON if you start another job early (assuming you get it) and change your last working day. Whether you delve into that grey area of working for the new company while you're on notice at the old company and stretch out the full notice period is up to you, but the last working day of your old place will be written down and paid out.

'ASAP,' to the new place might be 3 months away for the right candidate. If they actually mean 'Next Monday or you dont get the job' then you'd have to question whether that's the right move for you.

You may also need a little break for yourself to recover, whatever you might say about getting your head down and charging on, redundancy is stressful and having a bit of time to just not work isnt a bad thing.