Suspended - Need legal/general advice please

[psychocandy]

Yes this indeed a worrying trend. In the last permie role I had 5 years ago, I was taken aside and basically fired, but they offered me a "compromise agreement" which gave me a nice wedge of cash in return for my silence and swift exit. The lawyer they paid for on my behalf, said it is an American thing where they can fire you and pay you off with no fuss, as the cash on offer is alot more than one would get anyway from a protracted redundancy.
I was happy to take the said "wedge of cash" as it was a nightmare role and was thinking of jacking it in anyway.

Yep. Exactly what happened to me (and a few others) years ago. They started off saying I was suspended for misconduct and rolled out a load of crap claims. Then they said but if you sign this compromise agreement we'll give you this wedge of cash and forget about it all. If you don't, you're suspended and we'll try to get you dismissed with zero.

Scandalous really. I took it because I'd been at place just over a year so wouldnt have had much anyway. And it was also tulipe.