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If 20 or more employees may be made redundant in the next three months, but the employer enters settlement agreements with ten of them right at the outset, does the employer still need to send an HR1 form to BEIS?

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Form HR1 is the form used where an employer is obliged to notify the government of potential redundancies.

The statutory information and consultation obligations, including the obligation on the employer to use the form HR1 to inform the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) of potential redundancies, arises where the employer is ‘proposing to dismiss as redundant’:

  1. •

    20 or more employees

  2. •

    at one establishment

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    within any period of 90 days or less

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What does BEIS mean?

Government department for business, Energy an industrial strategy. BEIS sets UK energy policy and replaced decc in 2016.

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