Hiya all,

Sorry to rant but im really annoyed with Norwich Union and need some help.

I was employed with NU Direct, Pinfold street,Sheffield, until recently when the firm decided to annouce on the 10th December 2004 that they were offshoring 300+ jobs to India and the job i was doing would be offshored too. Richard Harvey (or mr pink shirt to us) said and I quote :-

'Aviva anticipates that approximately 80 per cent of the jobs created in India to support the UK business will be accommodated in the UK by a combination of expansion, current vacancies, anticipated staff turnover and voluntary measures. For example, in 2003 the company filled over 4500 UK vacancies that were created through natural staff turnover.

Fine I got my notice may 08th, as there internal vacancies were bad pay, unsocial hours, and learning a job that nobody wanted you to do. They decided it wasnt suitable alternative employment..i.e compulsory redunDany and as I had payment protection on my loans I thought I was coevered..

WRONG!!! - The payment protection was with (london & Edinburgh) who are Norwich Union..and now the cheeky chaps are trying to decline the claim as the have a clause in there that states they will not pay for loss of work which I became aware of within the first 90 days of the loan being taken out..

Hmmmm..lets go back to mr.pink shirts message
'Aviva anticipates that approximately 80 per cent of the jobs created in India to support the UK business will be accommodated in the UK by a combination of expansion, current vacancies, anticipated staff turnover and voluntary measures. For example, in 2003 the company filled over 4500 UK vacancies that were created through natural staff turnover.

and yet NU (L&E) are saying I knew I was getting made redundant. Hmmm....nu the employer says you wont get made redundant..and Nu the Insurer says you should have known.

ANYWAY..sorry to ramble but I desperately need to speak to anyone who either has faced the same sort of stuff or was employed with NU and got made redundant...please send me an e-mail to nezona@yahoo.com

I might have my house repossessed if I dont get this mess sorted out soon

cheers for listening
Neil

Sorry I cant help, but what a shower of barstools. :mad:
Perhaps any forumers with a policy with NU should get in touch with them
(incase of similar problems) . :mrgreen:

Sorry to hear your predicament Neil but if you took out the loan after 8th May, you haven't got a leg to stand on!

You were aware of a possible impending redundancy and still went ahead and took a loan out? What makes you think you were going to be one of the 80% that got another post? You might have been one of the 20% who didn't.

I would think its different if you took it out before 8th May because at that time you weren't aware.

nono...i took out the loan November 20t 2003 and the annoument was 2 nd december 2003 my notice was 8th may2004

Just phoned NU and they are sending me proof that I was not aware of any pending redundancy till I got my notice

Originally posted by nezona
Just phoned NU and they are sending me proof that I was not aware of any pending redundancy till I got my notice Oh good :thumbsup: Hope it works out.

Glad to hear everything will probably work out alright.