So even though he's telling me to look for other work because we are closing down, but hasn't given me notice officially I have no right to the redundancy money? It's not going to be easy for me to find a job in my field so the fact this job has come up now, I lose out. This seems so wrong.

Hi thank you both. He is selling to a developer and has already exchanged contracts so it is definitely happening. I want to stay but there is no option for this, so I would only be taking the other job because I have no choice as the redundancy will happen, he just isn't doing anything about it.

Hi, first post so apologies if in in the wrong place. As brief as I can make it the situation is - Worked for the same company over 20 years. For months they have struggled and at various times boss has said "might be worth you start looking around for something else" which I have been, but really wanted to stay put if possible. At no point so far has there been a redundancy consultation or even a formal discussion, just the boss dropping this into conversation. Recently I've discovered he is going to sell up but not as a going concern, still no official steps taken. There are seven of us who would then be looking at redundancy but not one of us has had any kind of formal process. I've started taking annual leave for interviews because I think until I've had something formal I can't take it as official interview leave. I've now been offered a job, but don't know what to do because I don't want to lose out on redundancy having worked there decades but the boss is just not committing to anything. The company are clearly winding down so I don't know what to do. I spoke to boss about a month ago and said the is a proper process and the boss seemed surprised but said he would look into it. Still nothing. What can I do? We have asked and asked but surely this is not legal. I think it's just going to be one Friday evening "oh one week notice, thanks for everything"