Huw Cooke, associate, Burges Salmon, looks at whether short-time working is one way of cutting costs without making redundancies. 

• Legal Q&A: Short-time working While short-time working may make savings, implementing this practice is not without its difficulties. 

Also

Making redundancies is not always the solution Personnel Today warns that there may be legal consequences when cutting staff costs. 

Difficult times: alternatives to redundancy XpertHR offers advice on dealing with difficult times and options to take where staff cuts need to be made. 

Redundancy: Policy on alternatives to redundancy Entry from XpertHR policies and documents module on ways of keeping redundancies to a minimum.