Policy wording: It is the Employer's policy to take all possible steps to avoid redundancies and, where redundancies nevertheless become necessary for unavoidable business reasons, to keep the number of redundancies to a minimum. Alternative courses of action will be reviewed in order to identify alternatives to redundancies in light of:

• whether any employees wish to volunteer for redundancy;
  
• whether the Employer can reduce the numbers of casual staff, temporary staff and contract staff;
  
• whether a temporary ban can be placed on recruitment into any posts that become vacant due to a member of staff's resignation;
  
• whether any employees whose job might be redundant can be transferred elsewhere within the organisation; and
  
• whether any employees whose job might be redundant can be retrained to carry out other types of work.