can you be realised from your job?

Question

i have worked for a company for 17 years and became ill 14 months ago can i be realised from my company with a package as i have been told from my doctor that i will never work again could someone help me thanks.

Answer 1

Good luck with everything. I guess the first question is, are you with the Union? May be a good job to join them if you're not, and just carry on for a few more months - six or so - until you qualify for the Union's legal help. When that happens, ask the employers whether you can be released with a package. If they say no, or it's not satisfactory, then contact the Union. DON'T tell the Union this is what you plan to do when you join them, as they are hardly going to be too impressed. You can say that you are off on long-term sick and that you're worried about your future there.
Good luck... you should at the very least qualify for £280 per year of service, times 1.5 if you're over 41 (again, if you're 40 and 10 months old, wait before you make any moves!!)
This is the statutory minimum redundancy rate, and you should be able to negotiate that, but let's face it, after 17 years in a company £4760 (or £7140 if you're over 40) is not much if you're not going to work again - it'll soon go.
Is there any way that you can attribute your illness to stress at work (eg depression), or an accident at work, or anything like that?
Good luck, and let's hope you can get a nice severance package without the need to go through unions, lawyers and all that jazz.
Finally, you can get help also from your Citizens Advice Bureaux but warning, this advice is not always that good and it depends very much on the quality of the local staff there. Are you in London? If so, I recommend calling the Mary Ward Legal Centre on 020 7831 7079. All boroughs have legal centres that offer free legal advice to people who need it, but the good thing about Mary Ward is that it's in the Chancery Lane area, meaning that all the legal volunteers there are of a very high standard.

Answer 2

i dont quite understand the question; were you released, are you threatened to be released because medical leave of absence is up, or do you want to be released. Your having a doctors note should stabilize your job for as long as your extened relieve of absence allows - it's different w/ all companies. Or do you just not want to work and collect social security benefits? But once your doctor says you will no longer be able to work, I don't think they have any reason to keep you, unless the doctor says you can work but is limitted to.............and if the job has a position to offer you that might accomidate you in areas which you are unrestricted to. If you can't work then you should be able to get social security benefits (if you aren't a teacher)
So I would talk w/ social security office first

Answer 3

No, this false idea is not taught in Scripture! Some Bible critics have claimed that Revelation 7:1 assumes a flat earth since the verse refers to angels standing at the “four corners” of the earth. Actually, the reference is to the cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west. Similar terminology is often used today when we speak of the sun's rising and setting, even though the earth, not the sun, is doing the moving. Bible writers used the “language of appearance,” just as people always have. Without it, the intended message would be awkward at best and probably not understood clearly. [DD] In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. [DD] A literal translation of Job 26:10 is "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end." A spherical earth is also described in Isaiah 40:21-22 - "the circle of the earth." Proverbs 8:27 also suggests a round earth by use of the word circle (e.g., New King James Bible and New American Standard Bible). If you are overlooking the ocean, the horizon appears as a circle. This circle on the horizon is described in Job 26:10. The circle on the face of the waters is one of the proofs that the Greeks used for a spherical earth. Yet here it is recorded in Job, ages before the Greeks discovered it. Job 26:10 indicates that where light terminates, darkness begins. This suggests day and night on a spherical globe. [JSM] The Hebrew record is the oldest, because Job is one of the oldest books in the Bible. Historians generally [wrongly] credit the Greeks with being the first to suggest a spherical earth. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras suggested a spherical earth. [JSM] Eratosthenes of Alexandria (circa 276 to 194 or 192 B.C.) calcuated the circumference of the earth "within 50 miles of the present estimate." [Encyclopedia Brittanica] The Greeks also drew meridians and parallels. They identified such areas as the poles, equator, and tropics. This spherical earth concept did not prevail; the Romans drew the earth as a flat disk with oceans around it. [JSM] The round shape of our planet was a conclusion easily drawn by watching ships disappear over the horizon and also by observing eclipse shadows, and we can assume that such information was well known to New Testament writers. Earth's spherical shape was, of course, also understood by Christopher Columbus. [DD] The implication of a round earth is seen in the book of Luke, where Jesus described his return, Luke 17:31. Jesus said, "In that day," then in verse 34, "In that night." This is an allusion to light on one side of the globe and darkness on the other simultaneously. [JSM]

Answer 4

i would suggest you talk to the personnel officer of the company who can possibly give you information on early retirement on health grounds and any benefits you may be entitled to, if your company has a pension scheme, you may be entitled to a lump sum payment to be followed by a pension or an annuity, most larger companies these days provide pension plans for their employees, and if you've worked there for 17 years it shows you've been loyal to the firm and that's got to count for something in this day and age, talk to the personnel dept. and good luck with your retirement

Answer 5

i take it you mean released? try talking to your boss im sure they can arrange some sort of leaving package for you but it does depend on the company you work for i suppose.
good luck

Answer 6

Do you want your employer to release you from your job, or, do you want your doctor to write a letter to your employer stating that you can no longer work?

Answer 7

yes you can if you are unable to work for an extended period of time. Suggest you contact an employment lawyer.

Answer 8

the word is released dummy and, yes, if your not the boss, they'll always hold the right, unless you claim that he beats you or it's because of racial reasons.

Answer 9

I would contact my lawyer... Good Luck!!

Answer 10

you got fired,to bad you didn't have a union there to back you