Yes, by law your employer must tell you in advance that you are being made redundant and they must keep paying you until you leave your job. This is called ‘redundancy notice’ and the details of this notice should be given to you in writing.
What are the fair reasons for redundancy?
Fair reasons for redundancy must be objective and able to be measured. For example, attendance history, punctuality, skills and experience, performance and disciplinary history are all considered as fair reasons for redundancy. Length of service and qualifications may also be considered.
Can you recruit during redundancy?
The simple answer is yes, you can recruit after making a position redundant. Once employment has been terminated by reason of redundancy, employers are not subject to any legally-imposed time period before which they can hire again for the redundant role.
What to do when you find out you have been made redundant?
Whether the news about your redundancy is unexpected or not, finding out you no longer have a job can be unpleasant. Receiving difficult news makes it hard to process important information relating to your redundancy and to ask questions about its implications. In this article, we’ve developed 10 questions to ask if made redundant.
Why are people being made redundant at the same time?
This might be the situation if your employer is suggesting redundancies at the same time as seeking to recruit staff for a similar or the same job role as the employees at risk. Alternatively, you might consider you are being targeted for reasons wholly unrelated to any genuine restructure or redundancy.
Do you have to be brought back to work after redundancy?
So yes, you can be made redundant. And no, you don’t need to be brought back for a time, though you will need to partcipate in meetings such as for consultation. But your employer must follow the firm’s normal redundancy procedure and the redundancy must be fair.
When to start consultation with employees on redundancy?
The time for consultation depends on the number of employees to be made redundant. Where less than 20 people are to be made redundant within a 90 day period there is no specified consultation period. The advice is ‘to begin in good time’.
