Employment law - Redundancy

Letter explaining protected period on redundancyYou must offer a suitable available vacancy on redundancy to those who are pregnant or are absent on, or recently returned from, maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.Redundancy protected periodT... Read more

Extension of deadline to apply for voluntary redundancyWhere you've invited employees to apply for voluntary redundancy and given a deadline for applications, you might subsequently decide that you want to extend that deadline.No legal obligationWhere... Read more

Ballot form for election of employee repsOur ballot form is to accompany the letter inviting employees to elect employee reps. It's the form the employee should use to cast their vote for who they want to be their employee representatives for collecti... Read more

Provisional non-selection for redundancy letterOnce you've provisionally selected employees for redundancy from within your selection pool and notified them of this, you should also notify those who were in the pool that haven't been provisionally sele... Read more

No suitable available vacancy on redundancy letterEmployees who are selected for redundancy whilst they are pregnant or on maternity, adoption or shared parental leave, or if they have recently returned from such leave, have priority to any suit... Read more

Redundancy policyWhilst redundancy is a potentially fair reason for dismissal, you are still obliged to follow a fair procedure when implementing a redundancy programme. Our policy statement helps get you started with this.A fair redundancyRedundancy... Read more

Withdrawal of counter-notice contesting redundancy paymentWhere an employee is laid off or on short time working, they may try to claim redundancy pay, but you can contest your liability to pay it in certain circumstances. If you do so but then chang... Read more