Redundancy Advice please Glenda

[scaramanga]

How many people are they making redundant. Sorry, how many roles are at risk of redundancy? [/tossspeak]

As has been mentioned, there's an obligation to go through a consultancy process and if there's enough roles at risk, it's quite a lengthy one. No decisions can be made and no timers can start until that's complete. You will be invited either individually to discuss that or as part of a group if you have some kind of representation in house.

In reality, that stage is a nonsense. You don't get to the stage where you've decided you have to make redundancies without exploring the alternatives first, and there are no suggestions employees are going to make that will change that.

But it is a requirement, and unfair dismissal is pretty much a slam dunk without it.

 

[Bullet]

I don't know the amount of your package or the pension details if any but you may have to pay tax on the money and there could be a way of avoiding some by use of the pension fund.

Yes, I am going to push that in tomorrow's meeting; don't just give me shedloads of cash, make it tax efficient too!

How many people are they making redundant. Sorry, how many roles are at risk of redundancy? [/tossspeak]

As has been mentioned, there's an obligation to go through a consultancy process and if there's enough roles at risk, it's quite a lengthy one. No decisions can be made and no timers can start until that's complete. You will be invited either individually to discuss that or as part of a group if you have some kind of representation in house.

In reality, that stage is a nonsense. You don't get to the stage where you've decided you have to make redundancies without exploring the alternatives first, and there are no suggestions employees are going to make that will change that.

But it is a requirement, and unfair dismissal is pretty much a slam dunk without it.

Agreed, Lots of nonsense verbiage about my role being "at risk" rather than just telling me to "do one".

Yes, they have followed all those procedures and now it is just the last knockings of a dirty, flaccid penis vaguely searching for safe harbour for the night.

 

[BrentwoodSpur]

Yes, I am going to push that in tomorrow's meeting; don't just give me shedloads of cash, make it tax efficient too!


Agreed, Lots of nonsense verbiage about my role being "at risk" rather than just telling me to "do one".

Yes, they have followed all those procedures and now it is just the last knockings of a dirty, flaccid penis vaguely searching for safe harbour for the night.

Ah, the memories that evokes

 

[scaramanga]

Yes, I am going to push that in tomorrow's meeting; don't just give me shedloads of cash, make it tax efficient too!


Agreed, Lots of nonsense verbiage about my role being "at risk" rather than just telling me to "do one".

Yes, they have followed all those procedures and now it is just the last knockings of a dirty, flaccid penis vaguely searching for safe harbour for the night.

In which case, it's worth remembering that from a business pov, once the decision to reduce labour has been taken, the rest is an exercise in risk management.

Some places will rest on a team of lawyers who are on retainers so there's no cost in using them. For most, the path of least risk/resistance will be the preferable one. Sometimes it's much easier to reach a financial agreement with someone than it is to risk a tribunal.