What does the company need to know before individual or collective redundancy consultations?

Sometimes redundancies are unavoidable whether due to a difficult economic climate or to achieve a streamlined restructure. The employment team at Vardags can help to manage your redundancy process from start to finish.

If you are making more than 20 employees redundant in a short timescale, special considerations will apply and a collective redundancy process will need to be followed.

Getting a redundancy consultation right is invaluable in terms of staff morale. Where employees understand the business rationale for making redundancies, change may be more easily accepted.

Demonstrating a commitment to avoiding redundancies where possible and genuinely exploring suitable alternative employment opportunities will help with this and will help to manage risk if an employment claim follows.

Listening to your workforce and strong communication in a redundancy situation will have benefits.

We can assist with template letters, notices to employees and scripts for meetings to demonstrate commitment to this and to ensure that there is a comprehensive paper trail.

Our employment team can help to protect your business from time consuming and costly employment litigation through a preventative strategy to ensure that your redundancy consultation, whether individual or collective, is on the right side of employment law requirements.