Am I entitled to redundancy?
After 10 years' of two-days-a-week employment on a permanent contract the company I was working for cut my working hours and salary by half. Unable to continue on half the salary, they found me another (full-time) job within the company. This job was a 9-month fixed maternity cover contract and I was led to believe when I was interviewed that it was almost certain to become permanent as the lady for whom I was covering was not expected to return. I have just been told (one month before the fixed-term contract was due to end) that although the lady is not coming back, my employment will cease at the end of the contract. Throughout my tenure in the job, I had been given absolutely no reason to believe that I would not be able to continue. There is another job being advertised in the company which I am being encouraged to apply for and for which they are happy to give me a very good reference. But this job has a smaller salary. I took a reduction in salary to show willing when I took the fixed-term job but I am not prepared to take another reduction. Have my employers fulfilled their obligation to me by giving me the fixed-term job after my ten years of permanent employment or would I be entitled to redundancy?