Having exhausted all other options, you need to make some redundancies. Where an employee is selected for redundancy, must you offer them a right of appeal against your decision?
Published 27.08.2020
In June 2020 Heathrow Airport announced that it’s implementing a voluntary redundancy programme to avoid compulsory redundancies. Must employers accept anyone who puts their name forward for
voluntary redundancy?
Published 02.07.2020
In April 2023 the BBC wrote to some of its staff inviting them to apply for voluntary redundancy. If you’re thinking about conducting a similar exercise, are you obliged to accept any employee
who applies?
Published 04.05.2023
In a recent case the employer ignored an employee who had volunteered for redundancy and made another person compulsorily redundant instead. Its decision was ruled to be unfair. Does that mean you
must always accept volunteers?
Published 11.02.2014
You’re considering redundancies and have been told that you could keep more experienced employees in preference to inexperienced ones if you implement “bumping”. What is this and to what extent must
you consider it?
Published 23.06.2021
An employee has been selected for redundancy, properly consulted and told about their individual selection score. But do they have the right to see the actual details behind that score?
Published 07.11.2011
One of your employees is on a fixed-term contract (FTC) which will shortly expire. Can you automatically select this employee for redundancy over other employees on the basis that their FTC is going
to end soon anyway?
Published 07.11.2022
Recently, it was reported that employees hired by the organisers of the Olympic Games will be entitled to redundancy pay, even though they are on fixed-term contracts. Surely the media has got this
wrong?
Published 01.07.2011
You need to make some staff savings. You’ve followed the correct procedures and identified the positions to go. Trouble is, one’s on maternity leave and the other’s pregnant! So you have to leave
them well alone, right?
Published 18.01.2005
If you’re in the position of having to make an employee redundant, it’s likely that you’ll identify the most suitable candidate and proceed. But is this safe? Could there be another stage to consider
first?
Published 03.11.2005