Redundancy - selection for

What is fair selection?

When an organisation has a redundancy policy that provides for redundancy payments, a useful first step is to seek volunteers for redundancy from the work force, as some members of staff may decide to seek careers elsewhere on a voluntary basis. If redundancy selection becomes necessary, responsible employers normally have a fair and reasonable  set of criteria that is used in such selection.

The selection criteria for redundancy can be based on factors such as skills, qualifications, and the employee’s employment record with the company, including length of service, attendance, discipline, time keeping etc. The employer should also be able to demonstrate that a comprehensive consultation procedure had been carried out and that all suitable alternative jobs had been made available to the employee(s), if any such jobs existed.

Automatically unfair dismissal

Under the Employment (Jersey) Law 2003, due to be in force in April 2005, it will be automatically unfair to dismiss a person by reason of redundancy  in circumstances where the redundancy applied equally to other employees who have not been made redundant. Click on the following link for a Model redundancy procedure and a fair selection process

Where can you get more information?

JACS can offer advice

ACAS publication:
Redundancy handling