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Liz McQue - Chief Executive
Redundancy Essentials for Managers
- Category: Employment and Workforce
- Date: No current presentations
This programme can take place over a half or full day and will be tailored to reflect your organisation's policies where appropriate.
Aims and Objectives
At the end of the programme, managers will be able to:
- Determine whether a restructuring exercise will lead to a redundancy situation
- Understand what consultation is required with trade unions and employees
- Design a fair redundancy selection process
- Recognise what might constitute suitable alternative employment
- Be aware of how to deal with employees absent from the workplace
- Organise trial periods and know when they can be extended
- Understand issues around continuous service and the pensions implications of redundancy
Outline Programme
- What is redundancy?
- Consultation requirements - legal obligations and good practice
- The redundancy selection pool
- Redundancy selection criteria - the legal pitfalls
- Assimilation and ‘slotting in'
- Treatment of temporary employees
- Suitable alternative employment
- Employees on sick or maternity leave
- Trial periods
- Continuous service and the Modification Order
- Pension issues