The UK has rules about such things. If your job is at risk of redundancy, there are formal processes to follow. If enough jobs are at risk of redundancy, ther

The UK has rules about such things. If your job is at risk of redundancy, there are formal processes to follow. If enough jobs are at risk of redundancy, there's a whole consultation process that needs to happen before people are actually "made redundant". People are expected to work while that takes place. Money can smooth things over, though. The process is expensive, and has to be done properly, or the company can offer "voluntary redundancy" where they pay you to go away quietly. That happened to me. I don't know whether I was locked out or not, because I didn't try to log in again.