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21 August 2025WILKO – PROTECTIVE AWARDSUPDATE ON FAILURE TO CONSULT CLAIMDear Colleague,We have had confirmation that la...
21/08/2025

21 August 2025

WILKO – PROTECTIVE AWARDS
UPDATE ON FAILURE TO CONSULT CLAIM

Dear Colleague,

We have had confirmation that large numbers of you have now been paid the failure to consult
claim, which GMB fought and won on your behalf. We have however been contacted by some
people who have either not lodged a claim or who believe that they have been paid the wrong
amount.

If you have not lodged a claim:

If you have not lodged a claim, you can still do this by contacting the administers at the following
e-mail address:

[email protected].

This should be done as soon as possible.

If you believe that you have been paid the wrong amount:
We have been contacted by a number of part-time members who believe that they have been
paid the wrong amount. We are currently checking with the Insolvency Service to work out as to
how part-time workers’ pay has been calculated and whether this should have been on a prorata basis or on actual working days.

We hope to be able to confirm the position on this shortly and will communicate further once this
has been clarified.

Should this not satisfactorily resolve the issue, GMB will take all necessary steps to ensure that you
get your full amount.

Yours sincerely
Andy Prendergast
National Secretary
Your GMB National Team

13/08/2025

Update 11.08.25

Dear ex-Wilko GMB members,

We had previously asked GMB members who have not been paid their protective award by the 11th August to complete an online form to let us know. We chose this date as we believed there was a cut-off date for the RPO to make your payments. However, this is not the case, and the advice has now changed. Please read below for an update:

We know that many of you are still waiting to receive your protective award payment. In light of this we wrote to the Redundancy Payments Office to find out what was going on.

They have advised us that the 12-week window for payments is a 'guideline only' and that due to the volume of Wilko payments there are considerable delays.

Therefore, we do not need members to complete the form if they have not been paid by the 11th August (today).

Instead, we are writing to the RPO so they can inform us once they have made all the payments.

Following this we will provide a further update. If, after this update has been provided, you have still not received your payment, we will need to hear from you and an online Form will be made available for GMB members to complete.

To summarise: We will tell you when the RPO have made all the necessary payments. If you have not received your payment at this point then we need you to complete the form we will send to you.

I will also be writing to the Secretary of State responsible for the RPO, Jonathon Reynolds, to ask him to assist in speeding the payments up.

PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU DID NOT MAKE A REDUNDANCY CLAIM FROM THE RPO YOU WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE YOUR PROTECTIVE AWARD. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR REGIONAL OFFICE WITH YOUR NAME, PREVIOUS WORKPLACE AND CONTACT DETAILS, IF THIS IS THE CASE.

Many thanks,

Nadine Houghton, GMB National Officer

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