Parklife Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 Does anyone on here know anything about Protective Awards? To cut a long story short, my previous employer recently went in to Administration, with all staff being made redundant. I was able to recover some loss of earnings through claiming through the channels the administrators informed us of. However, we've had union guys in telling us that we can also claim for 8 weeks wages for a "failure to consult" on being made redundant, as part of a Protective Award. The Union guys are pretty bullish and say they've never lost one of these cases before. My ex-employer is no longer trading but apparently we can still claim from the National Insurance Fund. Anyone know anything about this and whether it is correct or not? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lion Rampant Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 3 hours ago, Parklife said: Does anyone on here know anything about Protective Awards? To cut a long story short, my previous employer recently went in to Administration, with all staff being made redundant. I was able to recover some loss of earnings through claiming through the channels the administrators informed us of. However, we've had union guys in telling us that we can also claim for 8 weeks wages for a "failure to consult" on being made redundant, as part of a Protective Award. The Union guys are pretty bullish and say they've never lost one of these cases before. My ex-employer is no longer trading but apparently we can still claim from the National Insurance Fund. Anyone know anything about this and whether it is correct or not? Cheers Yeah the Union guys are right, you can claim for it. I did it with a previous employer who went into Admin and subsequently liquidation and got paid. Can't remember all the ins and outs of it, but from memory the claim was done jointly for all employees and it went before a court (not sure which one). I didn't need to be present and the court found in our favour and we got our payments. Can't remember how long it took though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 2 minutes ago, Lion Rampant said: Yeah the Union guys are right, you can claim for it. I did it with a previous employer who went into Admin and subsequently liquidation and got paid. Can't remember all the ins and outs of it, but from memory the claim was done jointly for all employees and it went before a court (not sure which one). I didn't need to be present and the court found in our favour and we got our payments. Can't remember how long it took though. Thanks. Much appreciated. I assume your payments came from the National Insurance Fund, since your employer was liquidated? Were these capped by a statutory limit? e.g. you got 8 weeks wages but it was capped at £479/wk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Rampant Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 7 hours ago, Parklife said: Thanks. Much appreciated. I assume your payments came from the National Insurance Fund, since your employer was liquidated? Were these capped by a statutory limit? e.g. you got 8 weeks wages but it was capped at £479/wk? Not sure where it got paid from but yeah it was capped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 11 hours ago, Lion Rampant said: Not sure where it got paid from but yeah it was capped. MUch appreciated, thanks for the knowledge. Definitely sounds like worth doing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Rampant Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 1 hour ago, Parklife said: MUch appreciated, thanks for the knowledge. Definitely sounds like worth doing No bother, good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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