Part-time employee claims for rejected redundancy application

Voluntary Redundancy

As a matter of good practice, an employer should always consider ways of avoiding compulsory redundancy. One of the ways in which this can be done is by seeking applicants for voluntary redundancy, or severance.

For further information, see:

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   Practice Note: Redundancy—fair procedure: individual consultation in particular the section entitled: Consider ways of avoiding redundancy

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   Redundancy—individual consultation checklist for employers

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   Precedent: Letter—Redundancy (2) request for volunteers for redundancy (individual consultation)

The employer should ensure that selection for redundancy, and for volunteers for redundancy, does not amount to:

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   Indirect Discrimination (or any other form of prohibited conduct under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010)), or

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   any other form of less favourable treatment,