Redundancy

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Capita fails to provide agency workers information in collective redundancy consultation

  This tribunal decision provides another reminder to employers after Unison v London Borough of Barnet and another ET/3302128/2012 of the information on agency workers that they are required to produce during redundancy consultation.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing wider workforce of proposed redundancies

  A model letter to inform the wider workforce, who are not at risk, about a potential redundancy situation.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Thomas is managing associate, and Chris McAvoy, Joelle Parkinson, David Rintoul, and Gerri Hurst associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  How to

  How to manage voluntary redundancies

  Practical guidance on managing voluntary redundancies, including selecting employees; consultation; settlement agreements; and early retirement.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the time frame for electing employee representatives for collective redundancy consultation purposes?

• Date:

  26 March 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Golden handcuffs: pilots who took voluntary redundancy entitled to reclaim loans they made to airline

  This unusual breach of contract case involving pilots who sought to be repaid loans that they made to an airline provides a useful reminder for employers of the definition of redundancy.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Council fails to provide agency workers information in redundancy and TUPE consultations

  This tribunal decision provides a stark reminder to employers of the information on agency workers that they have been required to produce during redundancy and TUPE consultations since amendments to legislation made on 1 October 2011.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Official sources of interactive online guidance for employers

  A table containing links to government websites providing online calculators and interactive guidance for employers.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  EAT holds age-related severance payments not discriminatory

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a voluntary redundancy scheme that provided different severance payments for two different age groups of employees was not age discriminatory because the differential treatment was justified. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Victoria Bell is a managing associate and Chris McAvoy, Poppy Fildes, Rosie Kight and Helen Samuel are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.