Redundancy

A charity breached its collective redundancy consultation obligations when it failed to start consultation ‘promptly’.

An employer who promised employees the right to apply for voluntary redundancy breached their contracts by instead making them compulsorily redundant.

Charlesworth v Dransfields Engineering Services

While an employee’s absence for cancer treatment was the context for his employer deciding to make his role redundant, it was not the cause of his dismissal – and therefore didn’t amount to discrimination because of something arising in consequence of his disability.

Kellogg Brown Ltd v Fitton

An employer can rely on a mobility clause in its employees’ contracts where there is a potential redundancy situation – but it must be very careful when it does so, as this decision usefully illustrates.

Thomas v BNP Paribas Read Estate Advisory and Property Management UK

A high-level reorganisation highlights how the manner in which a redundancy process is completed can affect the fairness of a resultant dismissal.