We are a small company and need abit of advice (I think it could roll us belly up) 🙁
Wassup?
From an employer point of view though. We have done everything right/in the right however if it goes the way I/we fear the Solictors costs etc may help tip us all out of work 🙁
At a previous company, our business insurance covered us for legal advice etc... Rather than asking on here.
If you have done everything right you have nothing to fear. Employers advice needs to be done properly. there are outfits out there who do nothing else.
You still in recruitment Hora? The industry is ****ed for us smaller operations.
Brant we've gone through alot of changes, the costs of these were huge. Everytime we call the Solicitor the meters running and he now seems to be drip-feeding advice. I can see whats coming, one persons going to bring our ****ing hard work down. We will win, that is without doubt. However an additional 15k in Solictors fees will have to be found by us fighting this person.
hora - check your insurance and see if covers some contribution to legal fees ours did though we never had to use it. If you have followed and documented the process to the letter you will be fine, but you ought to get proper advice, it's costly but the cost in not doing so could be higher.
You could always seek advice from a different Solicitor if the current relationship is tired.
I've had someone contest a redundancy situation but if it's all been done by the letter it shouldn't be an issue, and their solicitor will know that there is no case to answer if you have all your evidence in order and the process was correctly and honestly followed.
We've been involved in a couple of disputed dismissals [1 redundancy] recently
It was way cheaper to just settle with them rather than continue with the legal route
uplink We are offering a settlement (generous as well). The idiot will lose but it will end up costing his alot of money. I also have the gut-feeling that this person has been through this/or done this before.
I know what you mean hora but we took a commercial decision to offer an ex gracia payment on top of the offered settlement just to keep it away from the legal route