Error on contract in my favour?

[Clairet]

I'm likely to be made redundant from my current permanent job with the local council. I was given two posts in July 2013 for the same role to add up to the hours I wanted. Therefore, I have two contracts that are almost identical except for the different post numbers and.... due to a mistake made by HR, one says continuous service from July 2013 and the other says from February 2010.


Between February 2010 and July 2013, I was on 2 x casual contracts. I know that this shouldn't count as continuous service. However, if it did, it would mean that I'd be entitled to redundancy pay.


Even though I don't technically have enough continuous service to be due a redundancy pay out, I have a contract signed by myself and my manager saying that I do!


My question is: Can I use HR's mistake to my advantage??

[leclerc]

Re: Error on contract in my favour?

If HR make you an offer of redundancy that you accept then they should honour that mistake. However, if they don't and state that you only worked for x amount of time and that is correct then unfortunately you cannot really argue differently...