Re: The beatings will continue...
I'm not a lawyer, but I think legally you're not "redundant" if the employer wants to keep you working there or to replace you with someone else to do the work.
Or maybe now you are... there was that thing where P & O ships fired everybody then offered them less pay to keep working, and the UK government said "how dreadful, what a pity, and what a good idea" and I gathered somewhere that they would or they have made it legal. "Taking back control", I suppose. P & O were able to do it because the company is based in Atlantis, outside any territorial waters.