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Informing and consulting during a collective redundancy: Making the process meaningful

Author: John Hosken, an internal communications consultant specialising in employee consultation and communications strategies at times of change and transformation.

Overview

Informing and consulting with the workforce is essential for the success of any business, whatever its size or type, and is particularly important in a redundancy situation. This series of Leading practice guides discusses how employers and employees can exchange views and ideas, issue and receive instructions, discuss problems and consider developments in a collective redundancy situation. 

Here, we discuss how employers can engage employees with the collective consultation process by ensuring that sufficient time and resource is dedicated to exploring the key topic areas of consultation. This is the last in our series of four guides: