Unlocking Employment Law

23Termination of employment (5) redundancy

Aims and Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• ■ Understand the original aims of redundancy law
• ■ Understand who is and who is not eligible for redundancy
• ■ Understand the only three situations in which a redundancy can occur
• ■ Understand the proper procedure for redundancy
• ■ Understand what is suitable alternative employment
• ■ Understand the significance of consultation
• ■ Understand how a redundancy payment is calculated
• ■ Understand what is meant by a lay- off and by short time
• ■ Understand the consequences of either lay- off or short time
• ■ Critically analyse the area of redundancy
• ■ Apply the redundancy checklist to factual situations in order to determine whether there is ...