Redundancy

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• Type:

  FAQs

  If recruiting to a position from which an employee was recently dismissed for redundancy, must the employer offer the job to the individual who was made redundant?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where a vacancy arises after an earlier redundancy exercise, must the employer offer the position to someone who was made redundant?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employer dismisses a pregnant employee as redundant are they still entitled to receive maternity pay?

• Type:

  FAQs

  At which rate of tax is any redundancy payment above £30,000 taxed?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Unfair dismissal and pension loss

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers unfair dismissal and pension loss.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee who is re-employed after having been made redundant retain their statutory redundancy pay?

• Date:

  7 August 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Length-of-service criterion as part of redundancy selection matrix does not of itself amount to age discrimination

  In Rolls-Royce plc v Unite [2009] EWCA Civ 387 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a redundancy selection matrix set out in a 2003 collective agreement was not automatically rendered unlawful following the implementation of the age discrimination legislation in 2006.

• Type:

  How to

  How to handle relocation of business premises

  Practical guidance on handling a relocation of business premises, including redundancy dismissals and mobility clauses.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where a transferee has no need for the employees transferred to it under TUPE, should the redundancy pool also include its existing employees?

• Date:

  22 November 2008

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Length of service as part of redundancy selection matrix is lawful

  In Rolls-Royce v Unite [2008] EWHC 2420 HC, the High Court held that two collective agreements that set out an approach to redundancy giving points for length of service in the selection process were lawful under the age discrimination legislation.