Redundancy entitlement after receivership

I was previously employed by a company for 15 years, until they went in to receivership about 3 years ago. Whilst trading in receivership I continued to be employed. The original directors then purchased some of the companies assets from the receiver and formed a new company. At this time I became an employee of the new company. At no time was I made redundant or even unemployed. The original company was later wound up.

My question is: If the new company now makes me redundant, or goes in to receivership, am I entitled to 18 years redundancy paymeny or just 3 years.

Thanks,

Russ.

I think that you need to review your documentation as to what was put in your contract of employment when you became an employee of the new company.

My view is that your service is continuous and if it came to it and they didn't honour it you could probably contest it.

Just ensure you have all your documentation and facts (sequence of events) listed.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the response Carol Ann. I had hoped that it would be construed as continous employment, otherwise we'd all have been better off being made redundant when the last company went bust, and then being re-employed by the new one (those who were made redundant claimed via the government scheme). However, and it's a pretty big however, none of us have written contracts with the new company and most of us never had written contracts with the old one. So I'm guessing that might make things a bit tricky if it comes to it. Hasn't happened yet anyway, so I'll just keep things crossed.

Regards,

Russ.