Employer Back Dating Notice Period - is this right

Hi,

I work for a small consultancy, who recently notified me in writing that my position is at risk.

I was the only employee to get this notice. I have been working there for 11 months.

I next day I had the follow up consultation meeting where I tried to discuss other roles for me within the company.

During this meeting they said they had to take advice on whether other roles would be suitable and get back to me. They tried to point out that my role however has been made redundant.

Since then I have been on 2 weeks annual leave (which was approved prior to all talks of redundancy, if fact they gave me the "At risk" letter only 2 days before my leave started.

I feel that although I haven't received any written notice about my redundancy, that my employers will try and state that I was notified of redundancy before my holidays, and try and back date the notice period before my holidays. In short using my accrued annual leave to cover as much of the notice period as possible.

As I have been working there less than a year, I believe that my notice period will be limited to my contacted notice period of 4 weeks.

They have claimed in Minutes of the consultation meeting that if notice is given to me in our meeting tomorrow then this leave will be "Redundancy Leave".

My question is: Can employers back date the notice of redundancy. Or is notice start only when it is served in writing by the employer?

I have been working for this employer from the 1st January 2008.

Thanks,

i know what you mean and I'm in exactly in the same boat!

have a look at my thread for details and hopefully someone can shed some light on this. I personally it's wrong/unfair and very cheeky !