Redundancy advice for for businesses
Expert support with your strategy, delivery and administration of redundancies and consultations to provide more compliant and compassionate processes.
Evolving employment and consultation legislation
The impact of redundancies can be far-reaching, affecting both departing and remaining employees. Providing the right support and ensuring compliance with redundancy meeting processes is crucial to maintaining morale, protecting your reputation, and avoiding costly legal issues.
From 20th January 2025, redundancy processes are set to become more complex. Stricter rules will apply to consultation, communication, and support. Tribunal penalties will also increase by 25% for organisations that fail to meet collective consultation obligations.
Navigating redundancy processes can be challenging, but our consultation Meeting Manager tool simplifies and streamlines the redundancy consultation process. From scheduling and documentation to notetaking expertise, our tool ensures your business meets regulatory requirements efficiently and compassionately. Find out more here.
*The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (Amendment of Schedule A2) Order 2024 is the legislation introducing the change.
“AdviserPlus supplied a note taker for approximately 2,700 redundancy consultation meetings for each of the 900 employees of a national high street fashion store. Following the meetings, each employee was supplied with accurate, GDPR compliant meeting notes.”
Redundancy consultation process, high street fashion retailer.
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Collective redundancy management support
Navigating collective redundancy consultations can be complex, but empowering managers to lead conversations with their teams frees up people functions to focus on strategic objectives. Our large-scale change management services simplify redundancy consultation management processes and help you achieve the best outcomes during business change, including:
- Attending formal meetings as a chair or HR representative.
- Providing tailored consultancy support for people teams and line managers.
- Building manager capabilities through tech-enabled redundancy consultation management solutions.
- Upskilling managers to have difficult conversations through digital training.
From mergers and restructures to redundancies, we streamline consultations, ensuring efficiency, compliance and a focus on what matters most – your people.
Reduce risk with Meeting Manager
Meeting Manager is a tech-enabled tool specifically designed to support line managers in booking high-volume consultation meetings and providing notetaking assistance, reducing administrative burdens. Meeting Manager also helps mitigate risks by:
- Allowing your managers to automate meeting scheduling at a time that’s convenient for them, the employee and one of our note-takers.
- Guiding managers with redundancy consultation meeting scripts to ensure a compliant and compassionate process.
- Supporting the logging of meeting minutes directly into the system and sending them to a quality controller for review before being shared with relevant stakeholders.
- Providing management information through accessible dashboard, freeing managers up to be able to concentrate on delivering more compassionate and consistent experiences.
- Securely capturing valuable consultation meeting data, employee feedback and outcomes while tracking progress in real-time.
A holistic approach to redundancies from the Empowering People Group
The Empowering People Group combines specialist HR expertise with a passion for driving business performance through people. The four companies within the Group share a passion for people-empowerment and bring together a suite of redundancy services, including employment law, consultation meeting administration and HR support, career transition and outplacement services, and coaching, learning and development.
Making redundancies will never be an easy decision – but our range of services can ensure the best possible outcome – for the organisation, those leaving the business and those who continue to work in your business. Download our factsheet to find out more about how the Empowering People Group companies simplify redundancy processes to transform the experiences of everyone involved.
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