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Redundancy

Redundancies occur when an employer ceases to carry on with work for which the employee was employed, or is ceasing to carry on with work in the place where the employee is employed.

While redundancy is a potentially fair reason for dismissal, for a redundancy dismissal to be fair, there must be a genuine redundancy situation and the employer must follow a fair redundancy procedure, including consulting on an individual basis. The employer must also comply with its collective consultation obligations where these apply.

These pages list all our redundancy news and guidance on making staff redundant.


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    • Recruitment & retention

    Redundancies boost candidate availability at fastest pace since 2020

    by Rob Moss 13 Jun 2025
    by Rob Moss 13 Jun 2025

    Candidates availability in May 2025 rose at its fastest pace since 2020, amid reports of redundancies and fewer job opportunities.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Education
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Edinburgh University staff to strike for six days

    by Rob Moss 5 Jun 2025
    by Rob Moss 5 Jun 2025

    UCU members at Edinburgh University to strike for one day this month and for five days during 'welcome week' in September.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Manufacturing
    • Germany

    20,000 employees agree to leave Volkswagen by 2030

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Jun 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Jun 2025

    Europe's largest carmaker has said about 20,000 employees have agreed to voluntarily leave the company by the end of the decade, as it looks to cut 35,000 jobs in Germany by 2030.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Manufacturing
    • Latest News

    Volvo to cut around 3,000 roles in restructure

    by Jo Faragher 27 May 2025
    by Jo Faragher 27 May 2025

    Car manufacturer Volvo will cut around 3,000 jobs as part of cost-saving measures.
    Most of the redundancies are likely to...

    • Construction
    • Age discrimination
    • Latest News

    Tribunal finds need for degree in redundancy selection was ageist

    by Rob Moss 14 May 2025
    by Rob Moss 14 May 2025

    Scoring someone lower in a redundancy selection process if they do not have a degree can constitute indirect age discrimination.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Construction workers win compensation claim against defunct employer

    by Jo Faragher 9 May 2025
    by Jo Faragher 9 May 2025

    The former employees of Bowie Construction will receive their payouts from the government’s Redundancy Payments Service.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
    • Manufacturing

    British Steel puts brakes on redundancy process

    by Jo Faragher 23 Apr 2025
    by Jo Faragher 23 Apr 2025

    British Steel has announced it will not continue with a redundancy process risking 2,700 workers' jobs at its Scunthorpe plant.

    • Manufacturing
    • Economics, government & business
    • Public sector

    British Steel: MPs recalled to enable nationalisation

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    Parliament is to be recalled to debate an emergency law to save British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe from imminent closure.

    • Police
    • London
    • Local authorities

    Met Police cuts 1,700 officers and staff in cost-cutting move

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Apr 2025

    The Metropolitan Police is to cut more than 1,700 officers and staff across serious organised crime, forensics, historic crime, mounted...

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    Top 10 HR questions March 2025: Carrying over annual leave

    by Brightmine 2 Apr 2025
    by Brightmine 2 Apr 2025

    Employers are asking whether annual leave can be carried over into the next holiday year after the rules changed in 2024.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Redundancy

    Sky to close call centres cutting 2,000 jobs

    by Rob Moss 28 Mar 2025
    by Rob Moss 28 Mar 2025

    Three Sky call centres in the north of England are to be closed and another two reduced in size, with around 2,000 job cuts.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Scotland
    • Education - further and higher

    Reasons behind Dundee University job losses to be probed

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025

    Broken down, the full-time equivalent job losses consisted of 197 academic roles, 119 school-based professional services posts in schools, and 316 directorate roles.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Manufacturing
    • Latest News

    British Steel to shed 2,700 jobs at Scunthorpe plant

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025

    Unite's Sharon Graham said British Steel was guilty of trying to hold the government to ransom, while using its workforce as ‘pawns’

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    • National living wage
    • Neonatal leave

    April 2025: What’s coming up for HR?

    by Jo Faragher 21 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 21 Mar 2025

    Although the Employment Rights Bill is still making its way through parliament, there are a number of obligations coming into force this April.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Santander branch closures put 750 jobs at risk

    by Jo Faragher 19 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 19 Mar 2025

    Santander has announced plans to close 95 branches across the UK, putting 750 jobs at risk.

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