Redundancy selection criteria

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  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.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is a partner and Colin Makin, Linda Quinn, Krishna Santra and Sandra Martins are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Thomas is managing associate, and Chris McAvoy, Joelle Parkinson, David Rintoul, and Gerri Hurst associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Automatically unfair reasons for selection for redundancy

  A table setting out the automatically unfair reasons for selection for redundancy.

• Date:

  28 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employer's decision to restrict redundancy selection to one made dismissal unfair

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employer's decision to restrict a redundancy selection to one employee when there were other employees doing the same job who could have been put in a redundancy selection pool made her dismissal unfair. 

• Date:

  20 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: redundancy selection based on cost was justified

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employer was justified in deciding who would be chosen for voluntary redundancy on the basis of who would cost the least to make redundant, despite this criterion being indirectly discriminatory against a particular group of older workers. 

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can employees with less than the required service to claim unfair dismissal who believe that they have been unfairly selected for redundancy bring a tribunal claim?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Joanne Magill, associate, and Claire Benson and Ceri Hughes, managing associates, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.

• Date:

  17 March 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  No unfair dismissal for failure to moderate redundancy scores after TUPE transfer

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employment tribunal was wrong to find that the absence of a system of moderating two sets of redundancy scores following a TUPE transfer rendered the selection process unfair.