Redundancy

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• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 July 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  Kirsti Laird is senior associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. She rounds up the latest rulings.

• Podcast: Identifying a selection pool for redundancy

  Date:

  30 June 2017

  Type:

  Audio and video

  In this week's podcast, we offer practical advice on how to identify a fair selection pool during a redundancy process.

• "Insensitive" redundancy consultation can make dismissal unfair, suggests EAT

  Date:

  22 November 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employment tribunal failed to consider whether or not the "perfunctory" and "insensitive" nature of a long-serving employee's redundancy consultation made his dismissal unfair.

• Redundancy rights: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the Government's response to its consultation on reforms to public-sector exit payments.

• Collective redundancies: Termination by employee after significant changes to essential terms is "redundancy"

  Date:

  5 May 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Pujante Rivera v Gestora Clubs Dir, SL and another [2016] IRLR 51 ECJ, the ECJ held that, where an employee resigns in response to the employer making unilateral changes to essential terms in the employment contract for reasons not related to the employee concerned, this will amount to a "redundancy" within the meaning of art.1(1)(a)(i) of the Collective Redundancies Directive (98/59/EC).

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 March 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  David Malamatenios is a partner in the employment department at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

• Consultation on reforms to public-sector exit payments

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on proposals to implement reforms to public-sector exit payments.

• Consultation on reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on its proposals to reform the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, as part of its consultation on public-sector exit payments.

• Podcast: Key employment cases for 2016

  Date:

  18 December 2015

  Type:

  Audio and video

  On this week's XpertHR Weekly, we look the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal hearing, British Gas Trading Ltd v Lock and another on the calculation of holiday pay and other key cases likely to have a practical impact on HR in 2016.

• Statutory redundancy pay worked examples

  Type:

  Worked examples

  Fifteen worked examples setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee.