Only 5 years.
Its typically 1 weeks pay per year but they are offering 1.5 weeks per year plus an additional month on top. From the conversation, whilst they cannot say they are pushing you in a direction it very much felt like take the offer. If not, you would just receive the standard redundancy package if made redundant.
They are also wanting a quick turnaround. 2 weeks if you take the offer, end of may if going through the process.
Sorry to hear about your situation, sounds terrible.
I'm not sure if it works like this, but the way I see it, they're offering you 6.5 weeks extra pay to take redundancy, but if you don't take that then my guess is you have a lot higher chance of keeping your job? Obviously if you take the 6.5 weeks extra then you almost certainly need to find another job?
If that was me, and there were limited options elsewhere then I wouldn't take the offer, as even half a bird in the hand is better than none in the bush etc.
No matter what mind, I would be applying for other jobs, and trying to get away from there if they wated to retain me or not.
Need to balance up the equity of the extra cash v the probability of being able to retain a job which may be hard to replace?
Suppose it comes down to how many are in your role or similar, and how many could they get away with keeping/ losing?
Do you cost more than the rest or are you cheaper than the rest?