Employment Facts and Figures Guides
This guide is a reference for all of the useful facts and figures from redundancy pay to the national living wage, from April 2025 to 2026.
On-demand webinar | Navigating Redundancies and Restructures in 2025 | legal updates and best practices
On-demand webinar for HR professionals which explores the key updates to processes following recent case law and legislative changes, highlight common employer pitfalls, and provided answers to your most pressing questions.
Redundancy Reforms: Labour’s plans to change collective consultation requirements
Labour’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’ has sparked considerable discussion, particularly around its proposed reforms to redundancy consultation requirements. While the timing of these changes is not yet confirmed, they are anticipated to take shape […]
Collective redundancies and the evolving concept of establishment
In the ongoing challenging economic climate, many organisations are looking at ways to make cost savings which can include reducing headcount or restructuring departments to make sure the business is running as effectively and efficiently […]
A Guide to Employment Law Changes 2024
This guide aims to provide you with a clear understanding of what’s been introduced, what’s to come, and how the government’s proposals, if and when implemented, will affect your people, processes and practices.
FAQ | Statutory Collective Consultation
We’ve rounded up some of the most commonly asked questions that we receive from our clients when they need to initiate a large-scale redundancy process.
Redundancy | Collective Consultation Practical Tips for HR
As an HR professional, implementing redundancies is never a pleasant or easy process. From an employment law perspective, the various technicalities that surround it can often be disorienting and complex
Virtual redundancies | The legalities of layoffs via video call, phone or email
Since the start of the Covid pandemic and the rise in the number of employees working remotely, there has been much debate about the appropriateness of terminating employment through remote means. Recently, Alphabet Inc, the […]
Making employees redundant | Can you give staff paid time off to find employment?
When faced with redundancy, it’s likely that employees will be taking active steps to look for a new job opportunity. This could involve considerable time spent updating CVs, contacting recruitment agencies, completing application forms and […]
Managing collective redundancies compliantly | HR Resources
With cost of living concerns intensifying, join WorkNest’s HR Business Partner, Hannah Copeland, and Solicitor and Employment Law Adviser, Toyah Marshall, as they uncover the top five ways employers can support the financial wellbeing of their workforce.
Tips for HR | How to avoid making redundancies
If you’re dealing with an unexpected downturn in business, you may be contemplating redundancies to cut costs. While this might be the inevitable outcome, it’s important not to jump the gun, or to even assume […]
Redundancy situations | The considerations
UK businesses are set to make some difficult decisions regarding their workforce this year as the UK economy is on course to shrink. With labour expenses accounting for as much as 70% of total business […]
Collective redundancy consultation
The news of how P&O recently treated its staff – by dismissing them as redundant without any consultation – has put in the minds of many employees what the correct procedure might be when making […]
P&O Ferries dismissals and collective consultation
There is widespread disbelief at the turnaround of dismissals at P&O Ferries yesterday, with reports suggesting that 800 of the firm’s employees are to be replaced with agency workers. We do not know the full […]