Redundancy

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Sarah Wade, Rosie Kight, Amy Ross-Sercombe, Kate Edminson and Lydia Newman are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  28 August 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Restriction of redundancy pool to one employee must fall within "range of reasonable responses"

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where the employer put an employee into a redundancy "pool of one" and did not consider the possibility of putting a wider pool of employees at risk of redundancy, the employment tribunal did not properly consider whether or not restricting the pool to one fell within the "range of reasonable responses". 

• Date:

  5 July 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Reduction in headcount not necessary for redundancy

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has affirmed the employment tribunal's decision that an employee, who was dismissed because of the employer's downturn in work and consequent reduction in the hours to be worked, was dismissed by reason of redundancy, even though there was no reduction in the employees required. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee of outcome of redundancy appeal hearing

  A model letter to inform an employee of the outcome of a redundancy appeal hearing where the employer offers an appeal stage in its redundancy process.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter inviting employee to redundancy appeal hearing

  A model letter to invite an employee to a redundancy appeal hearing where the employer offers an appeal stage in its redundancy process.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Sinead Jones is an associate, and Phil Dupres and Beckie Howlett are trainee solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamatenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter offering job to employee who has left because of redundancy

  A model letter when you wish to offer a new position to an employee who has previously been made redundant and has finished working their notice period.

• Date:

  28 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employer's decision to restrict redundancy selection to one made dismissal unfair

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employer's decision to restrict a redundancy selection to one employee when there were other employees doing the same job who could have been put in a redundancy selection pool made her dismissal unfair. 

• Date:

  20 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: redundancy selection based on cost was justified

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employer was justified in deciding who would be chosen for voluntary redundancy on the basis of who would cost the least to make redundant, despite this criterion being indirectly discriminatory against a particular group of older workers.