Redundancy.

If you believe that you’ve been unfairly selected for redundancy because of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, or due to a disability, this can amount to discrimination.

Your employer can only fairly make you redundant if there’s a genuine redundancy situation. Maybe your company is shutting your office, closing down the business, or there’s less need for the job you’re doing. You always have a legal right to be informed and consulted about the potential redundancy.

In fact, this process has many legal requirements to make sure it’s done fairly and reasonably. If you’ve been placed at risk of redundancy, we can advise and support you during the selection process to make sure your legal rights are protected.

A redundancy may be unfair if there’s no real redundancy situation, or if your employer didn’t follow a fair process to select you for redundancy. We can help from the moment you suspect that your redundancy is a sham or unfair for any reason.

You have the right to raise concerns about the redundancy process during the selection process meetings. And to request access to all of the relevant information used to make the redundancy decision. Once you’ve been informed that you’re being made redundant, you also have the right to appeal against the decision. If you’re successful, you can claim loss of earnings compensation from the Employment Tribunal.

We can help with every stage of this process.

Going through redundancy can be stressful. You may be worried about your job and future income. So it’s important to talk to us as soon as you can, to get an understanding of your legal rights and so that we can act promptly to make sure you’re protected.