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
When dismissing an employee for misconduct you know that you must follow a fair procedure and give them a right of appeal. But what if it comes about via a redundancy situation? Should they be given
the same opportunity?
Published 04.01.2010
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
An employee who is absent on long-term sick leave has been provisionally selected for redundancy. Can you make this particular employee redundant or is he untouchable?
Published 15.09.2015
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
An employer has breached several of its employees’ contracts by failing to offer them the opportunity to apply for voluntary redundancy. Are you legally required to do this before making compulsory
redundancies?
Published 17.11.2017
You’re considering making some redundancies and it’s been suggested that you could apply “last in first out” (LIFO) as your only redundancy selection criterion. Would this be safe to do?
Published 03.06.2021
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
You need to reduce the headcount across your business and redundancies are on the cards. To help you determine who stays and who goes, can you ask staff to attend competitive interviews as part of
your redundancy selection process?
Published 04.03.2021
In a recent case, the tribunal awarded an employee who was excluded from a voluntary redundancy scheme £72,000. What one simple rule will ensure that you never fall into the same trap?
Published 02.05.2013