Can you make someone redundant and employ someone else?

Once employment has terminated by reason of redundancy, if the economic situation suddenly changes and the employer needs to employ someone, it may re-employ the redundant employee. The employer is under no obligation to offer the redundant employee their job back; it is entitled to recruit someone else instead.

Can a job be made redundant by someone else?

They are at liberty to reorganise their existing workload in this way even though your job itself is not being made redundant exactly. They can even give the same role to someone else on lower pay, believe it or not!

Who is supposed to be at redundancy meeting?

A redundancy meeting usually includes both managers and HR staff when delivering the news to either an individual or a group,. It’s important that whoever makes the announcement knows enough about the person or group that they can adapt the message both professionally and compassionately.

How can you tell if a redundancy is genuine?

A redundancy is genuine if it is made for genuine commercial reasons. Factors that may suggest that a redundancy is not genuine include; Having job positions after the restructuring which are substantially the same as the previous positions, but may just have a different job title;

What’s the difference between voluntary and forced redundancy?

Forced redundancy (as opposed to voluntary redundancy) is often fraught with difficulty. It requires a well-developed strategy that supports how and why these redundancies are being made and an awareness of potential problems, such as discrimination claims.

What happens if you make more than 20 people redundant?

The first is regulated by the law: a) The number of people you’re making redundant: if you’re planning to make more than 20 people redundant, you need to do a collective consultation with a person representing that group. You’ll also need to contact the Redundancy Payments Service before your consultation begins.

Can a company hire after making a redundant position?

The simple answer is yes, you can recruit after making a position redundant. Once employment has been terminatedby reason of redundancy, employers are not subject to any legally-imposed time period before which they can hire again for the redundant role.

What’s the difference between firing someone and making someone redundant?

Redundancy is the process by which an employer ‘lets someone go’ from their company when there’s no longer a business need for the work they are doing. It’s a very different thing to ‘firing’ someone, which implies that the employee has done something wrong – when someone is made redundant, it’s simply because their role no longer exists.

When do you need to move on to compulsory redundancy?

If, after taking measures to prevent redundancy and going through a voluntary redundancy process your company still needs to let some people go, you would move on to compulsory redundancy. What is a redundancy process?