Collective redundancy processes remain one of the most legally sensitive and operationally complex challenges for employers.
In this one-hour webinar, we’ll combine legal insights with practical tools, helping you to manage collective redundancy exercises with clarity and confidence, as well as ensuring compliance, reducing risk, and maintaining best practice throughout.
Topics we’ll cover include:
- Defining when the collective redundancy rules apply.
- Mapping the process: the key stages and how they interrelate.
- Laying the foundations: building a clear and robust business case.
- Communications – sequencing and strategy: achieving clarity and transparency, whilst maintaining morale and focus.
- Employee representative elections: when elections are needed and how to run them.
- Completing and submitting form HR1: notifying the secretary of state and avoiding personal liabilities.
- Drafting and issuing the section 188 letter.
- Designing and testing selection criteria – achieving objective, measurable and defensible criteria.
- Avoiding discrimination and unconscious bias.
- Managing and implementing the process – a step-by-step guide.
- Responding to challenges and managing risk.
- Managing appeals and grievances.
Who is this webinar for?
HR professionals, in-house legal teams and senior managers.
Where and when?
Zoom webinar on Thursday 10 July at 9:30am-10:30am.