To negotiate or not? Redundancy settlement agreement
The clock is ticking and I can’t decide… what would you do?
In England.
Being made redundant from a Big 4 firm. The offer in the SA is statutory plus 20%.
I would sign however, they haven’t met their legal obligations to offer or even discuss suitable alternative roles that I could do. There was an open role, almost identical to mine - so as close as suitable gets. They didn’t even interview me for it.
There is also some slightly more debatable stuff about how they have pooled me and others, and misrepresented our actual role activity.
A solicitor I spoke to said you can try and negotiate but that my particular firm almost certainly won’t budge. In which case I’d have to sign anyway or go to the tribunal. I could use my insurance, as this is very expensive - and I waive the 20% bump which is like £8k