Informing and consulting during a collective redundancy: Steps to implement effective consultation
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 collective consultation processes and practices can be implemented in organisations through policies, training and identifying the role of key stakeholders. This is the second in our series of four guides:
- Informing and consulting during a collective redundancy: The benefits of effective consultation
- Informing and consulting during a collective redundancy: Communication and consultation methods
- Informing and consulting during a collective redundancy: Making the process meaningful