I may still have a job right now, but if we get stood down without pay I'm refusing and telling the bosses I want a redundancy. That way if I get a new job whilst not working there, I don't have to give them a resignation letter and 4 weeks notice. More so, it's a strategy that would allow me to totally ghost them if they call me to come back
In the law it would be great if there was a maximum amount of unpaid leave you are made to take before it transforms into termination of employment (say, any stand down without pay period of more than several weeks is taken to be a full termination and the employee hence doesn't have to give notice just to get all their unused entitlements paid out). Ordinarily being stood down just means not on the job and not getting paid, but the continuity of the employment relationship is still there, so when you return to work you still have the unused leave balances you had just before you were stood down.
Sure, my leave balances would get reset to nil if I went back to them being redundant, but think of how much fun it would be suing them for my redundancy pay whilst working there
And them knowing it's illegal to fire me out of retribution
ponds from now on.
