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
Due to business restructuring, you have no choice but to make a few redundancies. However, one of your chosen employees is on long-term sick leave. Can you still make their position redundant?
Published 01.05.2008
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
Suppose that you’re considering making some redundancies. One of your employees is currently on maternity leave and you’ve been told that she can’t be included in the selection pool as a result. Is
this correct?
Published 09.02.2012
With the economy slowing down, redundancy may be a word springing to many employers’ lips. In the first of several articles, we explore what a redundancy really is and the statutory redundancy
payments scheme. What’s to know?
Published 21.02.2008
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
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
Whilst redundancy is the last thing that any employer wants to have to think about, it can be a useful way of clearing out poorly performing employees. But how can you do this in a way that minimises
the risks to your business?
Published 22.01.2009
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 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