Just found out I'm redundant after stress leave—what should I do?

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CrimZestyHex

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I used my paid holiday for stress leave, only to find out on the last day that I’m being made redundant without any notice. Can anyone suggest what I need to do? Thanks!
 
Get a doctor's certificate for the time you took off, then have them change it to personal leave (sick leave). Then your annual leave will get paid out. Also, they cannot notify you of a redundancy when you are on leave. So go back to the doctor and get a month of stress leave. Use up that sick leave as soon as possible.
 
If you've got an enterprise agreement, definitely check that out! If you're on a contract, refer to that, or look at the award rate for your industry.

There absolutely has to be a minimum notice period!
 
Hey... So here I am, a manager stuck in the corporate grind.

Stress leave it’s actually a form of workers’ compensation. I know that now.

If you feel redundancy creeping in, you can stretch things out with workers’ comp. And if you do get let go while on it, they can investigate for up to two years after to check if the company was retaliating. That’s the real, unfiltered truth.
 
If stress has led to you being let go, and then they bring someone else in to fill your place, it can feel deeply hurtful and you may be able to claim for unfair dismissal. Redundancy, in its most honest sense, means the role itself is no longer needed.
 
How long have you been there? If they employ anyone else in a similar role within 6 months, you can still do them for unfair dismissal. They'll need to prove the redundancy was genuine.
 
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