I thought it went on your age when you get paid of not when you joined mine did
You are not being hard done by, the company is treating you very generously with the extra payment offered. You have registered your feelings about the calculations and the best thing you can do is to leave it at that; just wait to see what their response is and accept it. You may be lucky and be offered some additional ex gratia payment; you may not. There will be others who do not have enough qualifying service to be entitled to any money, but the company may, unknown to you, be offering them something. If you persist in this you will only be seen as greedy.
The issue of age discrimination is not your fight - that fight is for someone who is not being offered additional payments.
NewLad:
My point is my employer is NOT using statutory redundancy to calculate our payments as Im getting 21 weeks pay for 9 years service 4 of which were under the age of 22. My friend has done 9 years service and is getting 27 weeks pay I say again we are NOT getting statutory redundancy. Why should I be treated differently? I was employed with my employer before 2006 when the age discrimination laws came into effect.
As long as they are paying at least the minimum, they can do what the hell they want.
It would appear that whilst they compensate you with more weeks than the minimum, they are still applying the mulitplier rule i.e they normally award 3 weeks pay per year service but use the 0.5 multiplier for the time you were aged under 22.
Age discrimination laws have nothing to do with this.
Also there is no legal right at all anywhere to be paid the same as someone else as long as the difference isn’t on the grounds of age, race, religion or ■■■ and just because you got paid less and happened to be younger doesn’t mean it is on the grounds of age. You could be on £7/hr and I could get employed there doing exactly the same job as you and be paid £8/hr and that is perfectly legal.
You would need to prove it at a tribunal and good luck with that.
your friend aint gonna be your friend when they decide to pay both you and him the basic minimum required by law cos your complaining wen they are paying both of you more than they legaly need to
FFS! The OP is asking them to check - he’s not threatening court. There’s no harm in asking - if it goes against him so be it, but does nobody else think it’s worth asking about when there’s a POSSIBILITY he could end up with £3K more?
As has been said before = no wonder drivers are treated like ■■■■ when so many are willing to bend over and take it… 
I will try to answer a few questions here. As said right from the beginning I realise I’m getting a really good deal with my redundancy as not many people get a x3 offer. Everyone who works for my employer gets a minimum of 2 years service if you are a full time employee even if you have only been there a week. Everyone is paid the same hourly rate on nights this is £11+ph. The only reason I am being paid less than my friend is due to the age I started working for the company which I think is unfair for my reasons stated earlier.
Anyway Im still waiting for a response but Ill let you all know ether way.
I can understand what you are saying and maybe you can ask the question in as polite way as possible. But if it’s a big company I doubt it would change much as it would have implications for company policy and maybe having to pay far more redundancy for many others in the future.
If you have any argument about age discrimination then it’s with the Government or EU, but as the you can pay less as a minimum wage to under 21’s I doubt you’ll get far.
The company have offered relocation or redundancy and if you take redundancy they are paying more than the minimum legal allowance. Just work out what you’d get if they only payed the legal minimum.
This is really a lot better than many others get.
I said earlier it would be interesting to find out if they are paying the old boys. Well I have found out today that they ARE paying out redundancy to over 65’s I have seen one chap who is 69 and I have seen his quotation document so I know its not just bs. There is no legal requirement to pay redundancy pay to over 65’s they ARE doing because of their values and principals. Interesting…