REDUNDANCY– a guide for employers/employees
Rights under the furlough scheme(CJRS) It is clear that the Covid-19 crisis has caused considerable pain and anxiety to many in the UK, in so many ways. Many millions of employees were, or have been, ‘furloughed’ under the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), the purpose of which was to reduce the impact on business. That scheme will be unwinding and coming to an end after October 2020. In these months now, there may sadly be large-scale redundancies as workers who were previously furloughed are laid off for economic reasons. So, I am going to examine here the situation from the viewpoint of both employers and employees. As an employer , how and when can you lawfully make an employee redundant? What would be the consequences of doing it wrongfully? From the employees’ viewpoint , if you are threatened with redundancy or made redundant, what can you do to argue against it? In what circumstances might you have a potential claim against your employer? How ...