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All items: Collective redundancies - information and consultation

  • Coronavirus: Collective redundancy consultation and the special circumstances defence

    Date:
    24 April 2020

    With many employers potentially having to make redundancies as a result of the coronavirus crisis, consultant editor Darren Newman considers the likelihood of the "special circumstances" defence applying if they fail to comply with their collective consultation obligations.

  • Redundancy consultation: Preparations for the end of the coronavirus furlough scheme

    Date:
    24 April 2020

    Although the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme currently offers a short-term alternative to redundancies, when it comes to an end there is no doubt that many organisations will have no alternative but to make some of their workforce redundant. This raises the question for HR of how the redundancy consultation obligations run alongside this period of furlough. Consultant editor Darren Newman examines the issues.

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