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- Employment law guide
Updated to reflect that the doubling of the collective redundancy protective award, under the Employment Rights Act 2025, applies to redundancy dismissals that take effect on or after 6 April 2026. HR teams should audit their collective redundancy processes, and provide relevant staff with refresher training on collective consultation obligations, given the significant financial penalties at stake.
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- Training
Enhanced redundancy protections will apply for employees taking, or returning, from bereaved partner's paternity leave from 6 April 2026 under the Employment Rights Act 2025. Use this training to help ensure line managers are aware of this change.
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- Legal timetable
Updated to confirm that this uplift applies to redundancy dismissals that take effect on or after 6 April 2026. This gives HR clarity on exactly when their employer faces the danger of a higher protective award if it gets collective redundancy consultation wrong.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
The Government has issued a consultation on the triggers for the new collective redundancy consultation threshold under the Employment Rights Act 2025, which will affect employers making redundancies across multiple sites when the changes come into effect in 2027.
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- Legal timetable
The Government has fleshed out the potential options for the organisation-wide triggers for the new collective redundancy consultation threshold under the Employment Rights Act 2025, which will affect employers making redundancies across multiple sites when the changes come into effect in 2027.
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- Employment law guide
Updated with a reference to Hendy Group Ltd v Kennedy, which addressed the issue of suitable alternative employment and unfair dismissal.
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- 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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- 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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- 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.
