Live Webinar – Redundancies in the Covid19 era – 30th July at 2pm
This is a Live Webinar available via Zoom
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This is one of three one-hour live webinars which can be purchased for a discounted package price of £75 + VAT.
Contents
With 600,000 fewer workers already on UK payrolls in the period between March and May 2020, redundancy exercises are here to stay for the foreseeable future. This webinar provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the law relating to redundancies, both individual and collective, with particular focus on the challenges thrown up by the pandemic in managing redundancy exercises.
- What is redundancy?
- Selection criteria – how do you choose who to make redundant?
- Collective consultation obligations – when do these apply and what do you have to do?
- Offering suitable alternative employment – why and how should this happen?
- Entitlement to redundancy payments
- Changing terms and conditions – tips and tricks
Learning Objectives
The aim of the talk is to give delegates:
- A greater awareness of the law relating to individual and collective redundancies
- Practical guidance on how to run redundancy exercises in the Covid climate
- An insight into the interplay between redundancy and discrimination law
Speaker
BETSAN CRIDDLE
Betsan Criddle is a specialist employment barrister at Old Square Chambers, where she represents both employers and employees.
She is ranked as a leading junior in employment law by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal UK. She is described as “tenacious, sharp and very user-friendly. She has a steely determination and is great to have in your corner during hard-fought litigation” and as having “forensic attention to detail, and her advice is always very clear and focused on practical solutions.”
Recent work includes London Borough of Wandsworth v Vining on the extent of the duty of the collective consultation under s.188 Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
