Redundancy

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• If an employee refuses an offer of suitable alternative employment in a redundancy situation, is this a dismissal or a resignation?

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  FAQs

• If a TUPE transfer results in redundancies, which employer is responsible for the redundancy process and payments?

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  FAQs

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 April 2015

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  Law reports

  James Buckley, Iain Naylor, Chris McAvoy and Lucy Sorell are associates and Mona Jackson is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Collective redundancy consultation: Advocate General casts doubt on EAT interpretation of 20-employee threshold

  Date:

  5 February 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Advocate General has taken the view that, when deciding whether or not collective redundancy consultation obligations are triggered, the number of proposed redundancies should be measured in the "local employment unit" to which the potentially redundant employees are assigned to carry out their duties, rather than the whole organisation.

• Redundancy selection: employer's approach to disability-related absences

  Date:

  27 November 2014

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  Law reports

  In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) tackled the thorny issue of applying sickness absence criteria in redundancy selection to disabled employees at risk of redundancy.

• Does an employee made redundant while on shared parental leave have any special rights?

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  FAQs

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 July 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  Krishna Santra, Linda Quinn and Colin Makin are senior associates and Melissa Powys-Rodrigues and Dominic Speedie are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 June 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer and Ed Gregory, Rosie Kight and Joanne Magill are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Redundancy: Conduct an election for employee representatives for collective redundancy consultation

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  Liveflo

  Use this redundancy workflow to carry out an election of employee representatives for collective redundancy consultation purposes.

• Redundancy: Conduct a redundancy process

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  Liveflo

  Use this redundancy consultation workflow where a business or workplace is closing, or there is a diminished need for employees to carry out work of a particular kind.