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Was the move to part time a permanent one?
Thank you. Unfortunately when a redundancy calculation is made the employee’s current pay is taken into account. It really does not matter what they have historically done and what they have been paid previously - they are being made redundant from their current job, not from their previous ones. So it could well be that someone has worked full time most of their career and only recently changed to part time and then are being made redundant - it is the current, part time pay which would be taken into account when the employer calculates their redundancy entitlement, notice pay, etc.
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I am afraid that is indeed how it works. Remember, you are not being made redundant from your previous jobs with the employer - it is the current one which is made redundant, hence why it is only the current terms that apply
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