What happens in a redundancy consultation?
What happens in a redundancy consultation?
Workplace consultation involves your employer talking to you or your representatives about their plans and listening to your ideas. If your employer is thinking about making redundancies, they should consult with any employees that could be affected by their decision.
Do you have to have a redundancy consultation before you are made redundant?
Before you are made redundant you are entitled to redundancy consultation with your employer about the reasons behind the proposed redundancy, regardless of how many people are being made redundant. If you had no consultation in a redundancy situation, this is likely to be unlawful.
What happens at the final meeting of the redundancy process?
The final meeting is an opportunity for you to summarise the redundancy process and the decision made.
What do you need to know about a consultation process?
A consultation process is a period of constructive dialogue and information-sharing between an organisation and its employee, which may or may not result in redundancy. The type of consultation depends on the number of employees being made redundant at the same time.
How are employees at risk of redundancy informed?
Regardless of whether or not an initial meeting is held, all employees at risk of redundancy should be informed via an “at-risk” letter to confirm that their role is at risk of redundancy, why this is the case and outlining the consultation process.
When do you start the redundancy consultation process?
Consultation must start when you are developing redundancy proposals and at least: 30 days before the first redundancy where there are 20 to 99 proposed redundancies 90 days before the first redundancy where there are 100 or more proposed redundancies
Can a trade union representative attend an individual redundancy consultation?
In particular, by involving employees in devising the selection criteria and allowing them to feed back on their individual score, and allowing your employee to be accompanied by a trade union representative or colleague from an early stage in the redundancy process, you should be able to avoid a claim in the Employment Tribunal. Need assistance?
A consultation process is a period of constructive dialogue and information-sharing between an organisation and its employee, which may or may not result in redundancy. The type of consultation depends on the number of employees being made redundant at the same time.
How many employees can be made redundant at the same time?
The type of consultation depends on the number of employees being made redundant at the same time. If there are between one and nineteen employees being made redundant then there are no rules on how this consultation should be carried out, except that it should be meaningful.