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Incompetent employer does not necessarily make a dismissal unfair.

Tom Street — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:29:54 +0000

Employment solicitors who act for respondents are probably all breathing a sigh of relief following a decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The case in question (Osoba v Chief Constable of Herts) related to a claim for unfair dismissal and age discrimination following a redundancy proceedings. The issue in this case revolved around the scoring ... Read more

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Case Study: Redundancy and Unfair Dismissal. A Witness can make all the difference.

Tom Street — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:57:38 +0000

We were consulted by an individual who felt that he had been unfairly selected for redundancy. His employer, a large manufacturing company, decided to restructure one of its factory operations and as part of this process, having taken advice from its Human Resources department, it decided that, once it had created the new structure, it ... Read more

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Key Cases: Williams and Others v Compair Maxam

Tom Street — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:20:32 +0000

Redundancy Criteria:Williams and Others v Compair Maxam [1982] ICR 156[1] When an employer is considering having to make redundancies in the company they are not able to cherry pick the employees that they want to keep on. They instead have to have a proper redundancy criteria from which they select the employees who are to ... Read more

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Collective redundancy consultations: Government changes

Chloe George — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:48:58 +0000

On the 6th April 2013 the Government introduced a rather significant change to the rules relating to collective redundancy that companies have to abide by. With regard to what it meant by collective the Government have classed it as any company that is looking to make 100 or more staff members redundant. The rule change ... Read more

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Restructures & Reorganisations – Am I Redundant?

Chloe George — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:22:22 +0000

With a challenging economic climate, the news seems to be inundated with reports of redundancies as companies and businesses struggle to keep their workers employed. Ruthless employers will, however, be tempted to use the economic conditions as an excuse to ‘reorganise’ or ‘restructure’ their business resulting in redundancies. But redundant employees would be wise not to accept the ... Read more

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