Redundancy

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  Does placing employees on furlough prevent the employer from making them redundant?

• Date:

  11 November 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Employment law: Seven key tasks for HR in 2021

  2020 was the year that HR was required to react to the unexpected, but it's now time to plan for the known challenges in the coming year. We look at what HR can do to prepare for 2021.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer rehire and furlough employees they had made redundant before the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was announced?

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Lay-off and short-time working

  Updated to reflect the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to 30 April 2021.

• Type:

  How to

  How to consider alternatives to redundancy during the coronavirus crisis

  Updated to reflect that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has been extended and the introduction of the Job Support Scheme has been delayed.

• Date:

  20 October 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Managing the end of a redundancy process

  Employment lawyer David Whincup provides practical tips on managing the end of a redundancy process.

• Date:

  28 September 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  Redundancy: Failure to put redundant employee on bank list was not unfair

  In Aramark (UK) Ltd v Fernandes, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer's failure to put a redundant employee on a list of bank workers was not unreasonable, within the meaning of s.98(4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

• Date:

  15 September 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Covid-19 and recession: Is redundancy the only option?

  With job losses never far from the headlines and the end of the furlough scheme looming, businesses are evaluating the future shape of their workforce. Adam Penman explains how HR should approach redundancy decisions and reflects on the alternatives.

• Type:

  Consultations

  Consultation on reforming local government exit pay

  The Government consults on the impact of reforms on exit pay for local government workers.

• Date:

  11 September 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Redundancy - legal and practical complexities

  Max Winthrop, partner and head of the employment law team at Short, Richardson & Forth, navigates you through the common tricky issues when making redundancies.