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Source: IRS Employment Review

Issue: 931

Date: 19/10/2009

Publisher: IRS

Two in five employers underestimated redundancies required in 2009

TOPICS:

recruitment	labour market and economy
HR policy and strategy	business challenges
termination of employment	redundancy

SECTORS:
manufacturing (other)
public services
services (other)

AUTHOR: Noelle Murphy

IRS revisited 91 organisations that had provided information on redundancies in their organisation at the beginning of 2009 and found that two in five had underestimated the number of job losses required during the year.

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How predictions fared in 2009
UK redundancy figures
Reasons for planned redundancies in 2009
Steps taken to minimise compulsory redundancies in 2008
Voluntary redundancies
Impact of redundancies
Our research
Table 1: Predicted and actual redundancies
Table 2: Reasons for redundancies, predicted and actual in 2009
Table 3: Steps taken to minimise compulsory redundancies
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