Develop sound redundancy selection criteria

Focus on protecting your core business first and retain staff whose skills support it. 

Getting your redundancy selection criteria right is the key to fair selection for redundancy.  Identify key job and personal skills criteria required for each job and evaluate staff against the criteria. Make sure that you have evidence to support the reasons for your evaluation.

The High Court has just ruled that 'last in, first out' can be included as part of broader selection criteria but using it exclusively is discriminatory.

Using redundancies to deal with performance issues or to skew selection towards older or part-time workers can result in claims for unfair selection for redundancy.

Effective People has developed a redundancy selection criteria matrix that ensures you will select fairly and objectively.