Redundancy pools

New and updated

• Date:

  2 February 2021

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  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.

• 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.

• Type:

  FAQs

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

• Date:

  1 September 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  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:

  28 August 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  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". 

• Type:

  FAQs

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

• Type:

  How to

  How to decide which employees to include in a redundancy pool

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

• Type:

  FAQs

  In a redundancy situation, how should an employer select which employees to make redundant?

• Date:

  11 November 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Redundancy: Employer was entitled to determine narrow pool for redundancy selection

  In Lomond Motors Ltd v Clark EATS/0019/09, the EAT held that an employment tribunal had erred in finding a dismissal unfair on the grounds that the redundancy selection pool had been incorrectly drawn. The tribunal had substituted its own view for that of a reasonable employer. The tribunal had further erred in its assessment of compensation.