What happens if I’m offered alternative employment?
If you are offered another job, it could mean you will not be recognised as having been made redundant if you turn it down. But the employer must follow certain rules if this is the case. They must: • offer you a new job before your current contract expires, which must start within four weeks; • ensure the job is suitable – you can reject an alternative offer that is obviously unsuitable; • allow an employee a four-week trial period to establish if the job is suitable – if the employee stays in the job at the end of the trial period, rights to a redundancy payment will be lost, because in law, you have accepted the new job. If an employee rejects the new job before the end of the trial period because it they consider it to be unsuitable, or for good personal reasons, your redundancy will start the day your old job ended. If you and your employer cannot agree about whether the job is suitable you might need to make a claim in an employment tribunal. If the tribunal finds that you have r
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