Redundancy pools

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

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  FAQs

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 September 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• Decide who should be included in a redundancy pool

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  Tasks

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

  Date:

  6 February 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

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

  Date:

  28 August 2012

  Type:

  Law reports

  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". 

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

  Date:

  30 July 2012

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• Case of the week: Redundancy and reorganisation

  Date:

  23 March 2011

  Type:

  Law reports

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

• Case of the week: Redundancy selection pools

  Date:

  24 November 2010

  Type:

  Law reports

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers redundancy selection pools.

• In which redundancy situations will it not be necessary to determine a redundancy selection pool?

  Type:

  FAQs

• How to decide which employees to include in a redundancy pool

  Type:

  How to

  Practical guidance on deciding which employees to include in a redundancy pool as part of a redundancy selection process, including when to consider "bumping".