Redundancy

New and updated

• Type:

  Training

  Collective redundancies - line manager training

  Updated to reflect that the right to be offered a suitable available vacancy is extended to employees taking neonatal care leave, from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  How to

  How to deal with pregnant employees and those on maternity leave in a redundancy situation

  Updated to reflect that the right to be offered a suitable available vacancy is extended to employees taking neonatal care leave, from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  How to

  How to consider offers of suitable alternative work for redundant employees

  Updated to reflect that the right to be offered a suitable available vacancy extends to employees taking neonatal care leave, from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory redundancy pay and employment tribunal award limits increase

  The rates of statutory redundancy pay and employment tribunal award limits increase.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Redundancy: definition of redundancy

  This resource is kept under review and updated in line with developments.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting redundancy survivors: Survivor syndrome

  Enhanced with data from Brightmine redundancy research on how the impact of redundancies is assessed.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Court of Appeal rules on consultation process for individual redundancies

  In De Bank Haycocks v ADP RPO UK, the Court of Appeal restored the tribunal's decision that the redundancy dismissal was fair and held that "general workforce consultation" is not necessary where the collective consultation requirements do not apply.

• Date:

  24 October 2024

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Employment Rights Bill - how HR can get ahead of the changes

  In this webinar, Brightmine legal editors Stephen Simpson and Zeba Sayed explain what the changes are going to be, what employers can do now to begin preparing and the potential timelines for implementation.

• Date:

  17 October 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Moving forward after redundancy: Stories from HR

  Through the words of HR, we explore how organisations are moving forward following the end of their redundancy processes and understand what they feel could be done differently to improve things for the future.

• Date:

  17 October 2024

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Redundancy research 2024

  New research from Brightmine has found that more than half of responding organisations have made redundancies in the last 12 months. This analysis explores how organisations are navigating their approach to redundancies, as well as providing key metrics on the scale of the changes being made.