Redundancy

New and updated

• Date:

  24 April 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Coronavirus: Collective redundancy consultation and the special circumstances defence

  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.

• Date:

  24 April 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

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

  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.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can employers bring back employees who were made redundant before the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was announced, and make a claim for them under the scheme?

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter withdrawing redundancy notice

  Updated to reflect guidance published on 15 April 2020 changing the date by which the employee must have been on the payroll to be eligible for furlough under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter confirming employee's dismissal for redundancy (individual consultation)

  Updated to include a reminder of the increase to the maximum amount of a week's pay for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy pay, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter setting out an employee's entitlement to a redundancy payment

  Updated to include a reminder of the increase to the maximum amount of a week's pay for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy pay, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form setting out particulars of redundancy payment

  Updated to include a reminder of the increase to the maximum amount of a week's pay for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy pay, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Policy on enhanced redundancy payments

  Updated to include a reminder of the increase to the maximum amount of a week's pay for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy pay, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Statutory redundancy pay

  Updated to include the new maximum pay rate for calculating statutory redundancy pay, in force from 6 April 2020.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Statutory redundancy payments ready reckoner

  Updated to reflect an increase in the cap on a week's pay, with effect from 6 April 2020.