Redundancy Solicitors

Need Help With A Redundancy Matter?

Redundancy is a type of dismissal from your job, normally as a result of your employer needing to reduce the workforce. Sometimes you can be selected for redundancy for the wrong reasons or your employer might fail to follow the correct procedure. If you believe your redundancy procedure is unfair, we can help you.

Reasons for Redundancy

Reasons for redundancy may include:

• new technology or a new working practice means your job is no longer required
• the job you were employed to do has been absorbed or no longer exists
• the business is closing down, reorganising/restructuring or moving

The Redundancy Process

An employer should select the employees fairly for redundancy, and they should be forewarned or consulted about the possible redundancy. An employer should take reasonable steps to see if affected employees can be transferred to another part of the business or company, and decide whether there are any alterntatives avaliable apart from redundancy.

An employee is entitled to receive statutory redundancy pay and be given the correct amount of notice. But if an employer uses redundancy as an excuse to hide the real reason for ending an employee's contract, or if they do not carry out the redundancy selection procedure properly, their action may amount to unfair dismissal.

Need Redundancy Advice?

We offer free initial enquiries. We know that once you have worked with us you will see what sets us apart from the competition, so please let us show you what we can do for you.

Please call us on 0808 178 9002 or complete our online enquiry form and we will be in touch with you.

See also Civil Service Redundancy.

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