Redundancy – Making Sure You Get It Right

Nobody likes thinking about redundancies. The reality, however, is that many employers across the UK will have to cut staff to ensure they survive the current economic downturn.

This article provides a basic outline of the redundancy process – and provides a few practical tips and pointers. We will not look at the additional procedures you need to follow if you are making 20 or more redundancies – we will deal with that issue in a later article. Is there a redundancy situation? When considering redundancies, the first thing you should do is determine whether a redundancy situation actually exists or will exist. If you make someone redundant (or you think you have) but the Tribunal find that there wasn't in fact a redundancy situation, the dismissal could be unfair. Also, even if the Tribunal find that there was a redundancy situation they could still go on to find that the real reason for