Hi All I do intend to "seek proper legal advice" but while awaiting appointment, would be interested to hear any experiences/feed back on the following situation. Company wants to push through Variation of Contract (less favourable terms for employees, ie less cash bonus which is contractually part of total renumeration, not a stand-alone bonus, so essentially a wage cut). Not because the company is losing money as it has always been in profit, gaining market share, expecting record orders and made recent aquisitions. Just doesn't want to pay out more to staff considering a lot more cash is coming the companys way and they want to retain it "says nothing about corporate greed* lol. So, been through the box-ticking excercise of consultation period bla bla, majority signed up with great resentment because they did not trust the company to keep their (written/published) word to immediately re-engage at the end of the individual notice period. For the few that stood their ground on principle, individual letters confirmed that re-engagement under the new terms would be immediate upon reaching end of notice period/dismissal if they hadn't singed up voluntarily before then. This was never a genuine redundancy situation, this is in writing and also that the intention was not for a single job to be lost as it was hoped everyone would sign to the new (less favourable) terms. The whole way through the process, as a group and individually, the company stated in writing, in minutes, on Intranet, in letters etc it was their intention to re-engage on new terms at the end of the notice period. The individuals have been issued letters in a meeting, given their notice period, telling them to leave now, not to work the notice but they will be paid for it. No mention of the re-engagement. So, the majority were right not to trust the company to keep their word! They have 7 days to sign to be considered for re-engagement, rather than their full notice period, some as much as 8 weeks. Legally, can the company renege on their "intention to offer dismisall with immediate re-engagement"?