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Video: Redundancy and the credit crunch: first bite

The credit crunch has marked a climate where restructuring and redundancy have become sadly more familiar features of the commercial landscape. Staff deployment and compliance with the applicable law are inextricably linked. For those involved in managing businesses both in the built environment sector and generally, if the question of staff redundancy has to be faced, then so too must the employment law issues that the business has to confront.

The programme deals with the legal and commercial issues that arise in a redundancy scenario. What do employers need to look at when determining these issues? How can a legally compliant selection process for those to be made redundant be conducted? What legal difference does it make to the employer if the redundancies are collective? How have Employment Tribunals looked at relevant cases on these, and many other issues?

Keith Corkan, employment law partner at Laytons, a leading national law firm, looks at the issues that businesses need to face in the current climate if staff reorganisation is in prospect. In what can be a difficult situation, both for employer and employee, avoiding legal risk and getting redundancy right for both parties is a key aspiration. The programme looks at the legal and commercial handling of these issues.