“Pooling” is a term that comes up in many redundancy situations but employers and employees are often confused as to what it means. Put simply, when more than one person does a job and there is a need to remove some (but not all) of those roles from the business, pooling is a way that the employer can fairly identify who should be made redundant.
With many businesses feeling the pressure from rising costs and other difficult economic conditions, we are seeing some reviewing their staffing needs as a way to steady the ship. It’s important that any redundancies are made in compliance with the employee’s legal rights to minimise the risk of…
Many employers use settlement agreements regularly, whilst others may be new to them and wondering how they can be helpful when managing a workforce. Our specialist employment & HR lawyers advise clients of all sizes and we have years of experience which we can share with you…
In the recently published post Waterfront Law – The IPEC Guide, we highlighted the “costs cap” as a feature of IPEC that is of real benefit to litigants. This is because a party can be confident that, should it lose in IPEC on liability (i.e. usually the decision…