Notice

[4getmenot]

I have recently been made redundant and aswell as getting my redundancy money I get paid 12 weeks notice, If I get a job in that time would my notice money stop?

[buildersmate]

In a word - 'no'.
The slightly longer version (for regular readers) is that you have no obligation under common law to try and mitigate the 'loss', if the employment contract provides for an amount to which the employee is entitled in the circumstances.
Are they not paying it to you at the point when your employment terminates? - in which case it is in your pocket.

[4getmenot]

but if they are paying me weekly for 12 weeks will I not get my P45 until the end of that?

[buildersmate]

Ah, that may be different then. You seem to be suggesting you are being kept on the payroll (i.e. you are still an employee) until the end of the notice period. Maybe you are being paid to stay at home?
Otherwise the employer should be giving you the P45 at (or very soon after) the point where your employment ends.
That is not the most efficient way to do things (money-wise), but it does happen.
Are you sure you are not being paid-off before the end of your contractual notice period?

[4getmenot]

I dont know how they are going to do it really. I just know I had 12 weeks notice coz been here over 12 years and that they want me to go after a week

[buildersmate]

Well, you need to sort out what exactly the offer is. Usually employers don't want the employees hanging around through the notice period, so they dismiss them. Part of the overall payment needs to cover an amount that you are due for breach of contract (by the employer) in not giving you your full notice period. In that situation, your last day of employment (termination date) could be next Friday (say), and the P45 should follow pretty soon after that. It will state that your final day of employment was Friday 12th. That date is used by the Job Centre for registration purposes, and would enable you to a credit for the NI weeks if you are unemployed (though any due payment for Contribution-based JSA would typically be deferred until the end of your contratual notice period). There is, however, nothing to prevent you starting another job before the end of the period.
In more rare situations (typically for management), the employer wants the employee to stay at home and continues to pay them normally until the end of the notice period - and effectively prevents them from starting with another employer.
Ask your employer what your proposed termination date is.

[dothawkes31]

they diddled us out of the 12 weeks by closing the business 6 weeks into the 90 days consultation and so part of our notice we worked and the remaining weeks we were paid in our redundancy payment, we had expected that we would only be given notice at the end of the 90 days cinsultation you see, but they deemed that the consultation had been meaningful and so gave notice. swindled we were, bloody swindled,.

[Panic Button]

I'm so sorry to hear of your redundancy 4get.

I wish you the best of luck getting a new job.

At any interviews don't forget to tell them that you must be allowed full access to AB during your work, and that logging on at 9am is essential.

[buildersmate]

Sorry to hear about that Dot but you are unfortunately potentially confusing the issue here. The 12 weeks you are referring to is undoubtedly the 12 weeks consultation period that applies when more than 100 redundancies are proposed. As you discovered, there is nothing that says the consultation HAS to last 90 days - otherwise unscrupulous individuals might just hang out until 90 days are up.
This question is to do with breach of contract by the employer by shortening notice periods.

[4getmenot]

thank you builders mate I should be getting a letter this week detailing plans, so I maye be back on then. Panic dont worry I will be on here in my time off :-)