Employee's Rights Related To Redundancy

The current turbulent economic situation created by the recently imposed tariffs has left many businesses reviewing their position and taking steps to stay afloat. For many businesses the only possibility is cutting down their workforce with a redundancy programme. It is vital that the process is conducted with strict adherence to the due process of the law for, a redundancy to be genuine, it must be demonstrated that the employee’s job will no longer exist.

Employers are permitted to use disciplinary records, past appraisals and other objective factors to assist them with the selection. However, they are not allowed to consider anything that amounts to discrimination on the basis of age, sexual orientation, marital status, gender, race, disability, religious beliefs, membership of a trade union, maternity or paternity leave, pregnancy, or whistleblowing.