Redundancy pools

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• Type:

  How to

  How to carry out redundancies when employees have been furloughed

  Updated to reflect that the furlough scheme has been extended until the end of September 2021, with employer contributions increasing from July 2021.

• Date:

  2 February 2021

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Tricky redundancy selection issues

  Employment lawyer Luke Bowery guides you through some common tricky issues in redundancy selection exercises, including those involving furloughed employees, competitive interview processes and disability discrimination.

• Date:

  2 February 2021

  Type:

  Law reports

  Redundancy: Pool of one and no bumping was fair

  In Barlow v Horwich Farrelly Solicitors, an employment tribunal held that the employee had not been unfairly dismissed for redundancy when she was placed in a pool of one and the employer rejected bumping for genuine and sound reasons.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can employers include a reservist's role in a redundancy pool?

• Date:

  1 September 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  Joe Beeston, Kate Edminson, Rosie Kight and David Rintoul are associate solicitors and Iain Naylor is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Decide who should be included in a redundancy pool

• Date:

  6 February 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  Redundancy: Employers not always required to consider pooling issue in redundancy cases

  In Wrexham Golf Club Co Ltd v Ingham EAT/0190/12, the EAT held that, where one particular post is to disappear, there will be cases where it is so obvious that the occupant of the post will be the only person at risk of redundancy that it will not be outside the range of reasonable responses for the employer to focus consultation on that person without considering a wider pool.

• Date:

  28 August 2012

  Type:

  Law reports

  Restriction of redundancy pool to one employee must fall within "range of reasonable responses"

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where the employer put an employee into a redundancy "pool of one" and did not consider the possibility of putting a wider pool of employees at risk of redundancy, the employment tribunal did not properly consider whether or not restricting the pool to one fell within the "range of reasonable responses". 

• Date:

  30 July 2012

  Type:

  Law reports

  Redundancy: Failure to include employees doing similar work in selection pool rendered dismissal unfair

  In Capita Hartshead Ltd v Byard EAT/0445/11, the EAT held that the employer's failure to include in a redundancy selection pool employees doing similar work to the dismissed employee rendered her dismissal for redundancy unfair.

• Date:

  23 March 2011

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case of the week: Redundancy and reorganisation

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers redundancy and reorganisation.