Redundancy selection criteria

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• Type:

  Survey analysis

  Managing redundancy: 2020 survey

  Our survey on redundancy and subsequent management of the process covers reasons for redundancy, selection criteria and levels of compensation provided.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Redundancy selection: employer's approach to disability-related absences

  In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) tackled the thorny issue of applying sickness absence criteria in redundancy selection to disabled employees at risk of redundancy.

• 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.

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  Tasks

  Draw up selection criteria for redundancy

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  Tasks

  Apply redundancy selection criteria

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  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.