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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 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.
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- Date:
- 2 February 2021
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- Podcasts and webinars
Employment lawyer Luke Bowery guides you through some common tricky issues in redundancy selection exercises, including those involving furloughed employees, competitive interview processes and disability discrimination.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Barlow v Horwich Farrelly Solicitors, an employment tribunal held that the employee had not been unfairly dismissed for redundancy when she was placed in a pool of one and the employer rejected bumping for genuine and sound reasons.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Joe Beeston, Kate Edminson, Rosie Kight and David Rintoul are associate solicitors and Iain Naylor is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Tasks
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- Date:
- 28 August 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where the employer put an employee into a redundancy "pool of one" and did not consider the possibility of putting a wider pool of employees at risk of redundancy, the employment tribunal did not properly consider whether or not restricting the pool to one fell within the "range of reasonable responses".
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- How to
Practical guidance on deciding which employees to include in a redundancy pool as part of a redundancy selection process, including when to consider "bumping".