The Week One Pack
Three documents covering the immediate post-notification period: a day-by-day action checklist for the first seven days, a single-page reference card of 2026 statutory figures, and a letter template for responding to your employer in writing within 48 hours. Designed to be used, not read.
Document 1: The Week One Checklist
The checklist translates the Issue 01 sequence into a working document: each of the seven days, each action, each brief note on why it matters and when to do it. It is structured for use under conditions of interrupted concentration — the kind of week the first seven days invariably is. You do not need to hold the sequence in your head. You work down the page.
The format is designed to be printed on two sides of A4 or kept open on a phone screen. Each day is a discrete block. Actions are ordered by urgency within each day — the Universal Credit claim on Day 2 leads, because the timing consequence of not doing it immediately is concrete. The checklist does not add information not available elsewhere. It removes the cognitive work of assembling and ordering it under stress.
Document 2: The Statutory Rights Reference Card
A single page. Every figure you are likely to need in the first seven days, current as of April 2026. The weekly pay cap (£751), the maximum statutory redundancy payment (£22,530), the statutory notice scale, the £30,000 tax-free threshold, the tribunal claim time limits (three months for unfair dismissal, six months for redundancy pay). Formatted as a reference card rather than a document — the kind of thing you keep next to you during a meeting or a phone call, not something you read once and file.
The figures are updated each April when the government revises the statutory rates. This edition reflects the April 2026 rates. The card includes a note of when the figures were last updated.
Document 3: The Acknowledgement Letter Template
Most people do not send a written acknowledgement after being notified of redundancy. There is no prompt to do it, no obvious template, and the first instinct — particularly in a difficult meeting — is not to start drafting correspondence. The result is that the written record of the notification rests entirely with the employer. The acknowledgement letter corrects that. It confirms in writing what was said, when, and what has been requested in response. It takes under five minutes to adapt and creates a timestamped record in your email outbox that did not exist before.
The template is drafted for the employee's first response — sent within 48 hours of the notification meeting. It acknowledges receipt of the at-risk notification, records the date of the meeting, confirms that written confirmation has been requested, and notes the employee's intention to engage with the consultation process. It does not make allegations or demands. It establishes a record. The template has four fields to complete: your name, your employer's name, the date of the meeting, and the name of the person who conducted it. Nothing else requires editing.
What You Are Paying For
The information in this pack is available for free. GOV.UK has the statutory figures. ACAS has guidance on the redundancy process. Issue 01 of this publication has the week-one sequence in full. None of that is the product. The product is the form: a checklist you can work through rather than an article you have to convert into one, a reference card sized to be useful rather than comprehensive, and a letter template that requires five minutes and no drafting skill rather than a blank page at the wrong moment.
The acknowledgement letter in particular has no direct equivalent available for free. GOV.UK does not provide employee-facing letter templates for the notification stage. ACAS guidance does not include a ready-to-send response scoped specifically to the first 48 hours. A solicitor would charge more than the price of this pack to draft a single letter. At £9, the pack costs less than the administrative friction of assembling the same three documents from scratch — particularly in the week you are least positioned to do that work.
No claims are made here that cannot be verified by opening the documents. The checklist is a checklist. The reference card is a reference card. The letter template is a letter template. If the pack does not deliver what is described on this page, Gumroad's standard refund policy applies.
This pack covers the first seven days. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for a solicitor if the redundancy process appears defective or a settlement agreement is on the table. For those situations, Settlement Agreements and Appeals set out what the relevant processes involve and when independent legal advice is the appropriate step.