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Redundancy

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  • 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:
    Quick reference

    Redundancy protection: pregnancy and family leave - protected periods

    Updated to set out the protected period for employees on neonatal care leave, as well as those who have recently returned from a continuous period of six weeks or more neonatal care leave.

  • Date:
    6 January 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law 2025: Six key tasks for HR

    In 2025, HR professionals face the unique challenge of dealing with business-as-usual employment law changes, such as increases in statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay, while also beginning their preparations in earnest for the looming Employment Rights Bill. We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year

  • Date:
    6 December 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Bill: 10 key policies employers must revamp

    The Employment Rights Bill packs 28 imposing employment law reforms into its 158 pages. While HR professionals await the substantive details needed to flesh out the Bill, we outline the key policies that you will need to update and an overview of what those updates might involve.

  • 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.