Fredcarnie

does reduced hours of employment from 37 to 28 hours per week affect my rights to redundancy package? after 10 years of unblemished employment full time with this employer. Our first meeting on 18th May with our bosses was matter of fact sign a new contract or you know where the door is We have been given one week to decide. The new contract has to be signed before the 1st June 2011 What would you advise please?

Please don't start new threads with every query - the build up of information on a single therad makes it easier for advice to be accurate.

And yes, of course a reduction of hours impacts on any package which is determined by salary. So reducing your hours would reduce any potential redundancy package in the future.

However the choice is not "reduce your hours or the door is there" - you cannot be forced to sign anything that reduces your terms and conditions by such a significant amount - and enforcing such a contract would almost certainly be unfair dismissal. The employer must give the option of redundancy in this case, unless the reduction is of a temporary nature (and possibly not even then).

It would be significantly easier, instead of answering random questions out of context, if you could cut to the chase and say what is happening and what you are worried about - random questions get random answers!