Mentioning Being Made Redundant At An Interview?

[Jennykenny]

Friend was made redundant from one job but has been offered another very good one.
He didn't mention that he was made redundant at the interview and wonders if his new employers will find out, for example, via the Inland Revenue.
Will there be an such information on his P60 or P45?

[Zacs-Master]

If he wasn't asked, then more fool them. It has no bearing on him being offered a position.

[MargoTester]

He was offered the job on merit, I don't see why being made redundant would matter.

[Jennykenny]

It seems to be a small company, husband and wife and one other employee rather than a big multinational with a HR department.
Personally I think he is taking a risk starting a new job with a lie. These things have a habit of coming back to bite you in the bum.

[tonyav]

P60 and P45 or the Inland revenue won't tell his future employer anything about redundancy.

[Zacs-Master]

If he wasn't asked, he hasn't lied.

[MargoTester]

If they didn't ask why he left his old job then he didn't lie.if he is worried about it them he should ring them up and tell them. I've been taken on twice after Ewing made redundant with no problems.

[donny48]

Unlike being sacked there should be no stigma attached to redundancy,

[Jennykenny]

Thanks all.
Have passed this info on to him, and now it's in his hands.

[fiction-factory]

HMRC (not Inland Revenue won't know the reasons). Any interviewer worth his or her salt would have asked about the reasons for leaving/wanting to leave so if they didn't ask then there is mno problem. If they did ask and he lied then it could be that they are unhappy that he lied but i doubt it will matter

[jno]

as donny says, redundancy happens to lots of people through no fault of their own, so unlike being sacked it's not something an employer is likely to hold against him. If they'd wanted to know why he left his last job they could have asked; but they didn't, probably because they're not bothered.

[Jennykenny]

Thanks.
All very helpful.

[atalanta]

If I were interviewing someone who had been made redundant, I might assume that the interviewee was particularly keen to get back into work, and probably likely to work hard to keep the new job. I can't see why I should discriminate against such a person unless the redundancy somehow turned out to be an excuse to get rid of a slacker or troublemaker.

[ummmm]

What's wrong with being made redundant? It's not a reflection on their work.

[Manonfire45]

"What's wrong with being made redundant? It's not a reflection on their work."

It is sometimes um like when 1 person gets made redundant then the company goes on for another 12 years with the same workforce bar that 1 that they couldn't officially sack hence the redundancy.

[ummmm]

It's often last in first out.

Companies often lose contracts which means their staffing levels are too high.

[Prudie]

Being made redundant really has no stigma these days and with targets to get lean it's a very common practice. As for continuing on without 1 person - it is against the law to make someone redundant and then replace them later with someone else in the same role. That's consructive dismissal.