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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide summarises the process that employers must follow to fulfil their legal obligation to consult on collective redundancies. The duty to consult collectively is triggered where an employer proposes to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days or less.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated with the maximum amount of a week’s pay for calculating statutory redundancy pay, effective 6 April 2025.
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- Type:
- 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.
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- Type:
- 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.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated with amendments to the Employment Rights Bill around triggers for collective redundancy consultation.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect the publication of the Government's response to its consultation on increasing the maximum protective award period, which was published on 4 March 2025.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide explains how, while redundancy is a potentially fair reason for dismissal, the fairness of a redundancy dismissal is ultimately determined by considering whether the employer's decision to dismiss an employee, plus the way in which the employer reached and implemented that decision, is fair.
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- Employment law cases
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.
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- Date:
- 17 October 2024
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- Survey analysis
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.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Valimulla v Al-Khair Foundation, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a redundancy dismissal was unfair because consultation took place after the decision had already been made to have a redundancy pool of one.