Redundancy

New and updated

• Date:

  2 November 2023

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Handling HR nightmares

  We look at workplace scenarios that can strike fear into the heart of the most experienced HR professionals, including issues relating to: discipline and grievances; redundancy; and new legislation.

• Date:

  25 April 2023

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Case law round-up

  We look at four cases in which dismissals of employees in their 50s or 60s were found to amount to direct age discrimination, including two where redundancies were rushed through to avoid enhanced pension payments.

• Type:

  How to

  How to implement a lay-off or short-time working

  Practical guidance on implementing a lay-off or short-time working, including entitlement to guarantee payments and statutory redundancy pay.

• Date:

  24 March 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  April 2023 employment law changes: Four tasks for HR

  HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2023. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay.

• Date:

  6 March 2023

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: How to manage restructuring and redundancy in 2023

  The current economic climate is forcing businesses to make difficult decisions as they grapple with high inflation, a deflated economy and an increasing financial burden. Luke Bowery offers an overview of the legal framework and considers alternatives to redundancy.

• Date:

  16 January 2023

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: Adjustments should have been made to redundancy selection process

  In Jandu v Marks and Spencer plc ET/2200275/21, an employment tribunal held that the retailer had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments by failing to discount any disability-related effects when assessing the employee against the redundancy selection criteria.

• Date:

  13 January 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment law 2023: six key tasks for HR

  We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year.

• Type:

  Editor's choice

  Coming soon

  Selected new and updated resources due to be published.

• Date:

  1 July 2022

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Employment law changes 2022: Mid-year progress report for HR

  As we reach the midpoint of 2022, HR professionals would be forgiven for losing track of all the live employment law proposals and what they mean for their organisation. To assist HR with planning for the rest of the year and beyond, we round up the major employment law changes in the pipeline as of mid-2022.

• Type:

  How to

  How to choose and apply redundancy selection criteria

  Updated to highlight risks associated with the use of automated decision-making in redundancy selection.