By Laura Merrylees, Brightmine Senior Legal Editor
Updating author: Max Winthrop
Understanding when a role is legally considered redundant is essential for managing a fair and compliant redundancy process.
Our guide explains the circumstances that create a genuine redundancy situation, helping employers avoid disputes and meet their obligations — including following a fair procedure and providing statutory redundancy pay to eligible employees.
In this guide, learn about:
- When is an employee’s role redundant?
- Closure of the organisation’s business as a whole
- Closure of the organisation’s business at the place where the employee is employed
- Diminishing need for number of employees to do “work of a particular kind”
- Less work but same number of employees
- Reorganisations
- Bumping
- Future developments
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About the author
Laura Merrylees, Senior legal editor at Brightmine
Having qualified as a solicitor in private practice, Laura spent fourteen years working in-house for a large telecommunications organisation, specialising in employment law. Laura advised on a broad range of employment law matters, both contentious and advisory. During her time in practice, Laura worked closely with HR professionals and senior management and delivered training to HR teams.
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