Redundancy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

New laws will help seafarers but further specific action needs to be taken by ministers.

US judges have ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse last month.

Wes Streeting told MPs there were currently 15,300 staff at NHS England, and 3,300 in the Department of Health and Social Care. About half of the posts would go, he added.

More than 200 employees who were contracted to work on the separation of the supermarket’s IT system from former owner Walmart were dismissed this week.