Home / Employment / Ending employment / Unfair dismissal

Legal News

Redundancy consultation may still be required where new jobs are allocated by interviews (Gwynedd Council v Barratt)

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Published on: 09 June 2020

Published by a LexisNexis Employment expert

Table of contents

What are the practical implications of this judgment?
What is the relevant background?
Background law
Background facts
The decision of the employment tribunal
What did the EAT decide?
Case details

Article summary

Employment analysis: In a redundancy situation in which, following a reorganisation, new and/or different jobs are created, and the employer wishes to conduct an interview process for those jobs (rather than merely select individuals for them from the redundancy pool), it may still be necessary for the employer to go through a consultation process, according to the EAT.

Popular documents

Where an employer begins collective consultation under section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour

Where an employer begins collective consultation under section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, then due to a change in circumstances fewer redundancies are required and so an updated section 188 letter is sent setting out the reduced number of proposed

Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)

Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)The right to notice means a right for the employee to remain in employment for the period of notice, not simply to be paid for it. An employer will therefore often include in the contract an express right to make a payment in lieu of notice ('PILON') as an

Waiver of notice

Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving contractual noticeAn employer can waive its right to receive contractual notice at any time. Any waiver of the right to notice should be carefully documented by

If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the

If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some