If you’re in a country with good worker protection, there’s a big difference between ‘made redundant’ and ‘fired for cause’. There is no ‘fired for no reason’.
Redundancy doesn’t necessarily come with a golden handshake, though many employment contracts do mandate it.
But they do have to try to find you another job elsewhere in the organisation if that’s possible, and they have to disestablish the position not necessarily you. That means that if they want to make one person from a team redundant, they generally have to actually ask if anyone wants to leave, and if not, run a transparent process to decide who from the team to make redundant, not just pick someone.
You also have to not be planning to re-hire for the role any time soon as that would imply the redundancy wasn’t genuine.
I used to think that there was a big difference between being “let go” and being “fired”, in terms of what actually happens.
If you’re in a country with good worker protection, there’s a big difference between ‘made redundant’ and ‘fired for cause’. There is no ‘fired for no reason’.
Hint: only one of these comes with a so-called golden handshake.
Redundancy doesn’t necessarily come with a golden handshake, though many employment contracts do mandate it.
But they do have to try to find you another job elsewhere in the organisation if that’s possible, and they have to disestablish the position not necessarily you. That means that if they want to make one person from a team redundant, they generally have to actually ask if anyone wants to leave, and if not, run a transparent process to decide who from the team to make redundant, not just pick someone.
You also have to not be planning to re-hire for the role any time soon as that would imply the redundancy wasn’t genuine.