Redundancy Selection & Internal Appeal Hearing

Tempus_Fugit_2

[FONT=&quot]Hi Folks,[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I would appreciate a little help from any of the forum members who have had experience with Redundancy Legislation and Employment Tribunals.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I work for a Local Authority that is going through a restructuring exercise. Some of us have been given formal notice of redundancy. The authority has complied with the consultation requirements and has Policies and Procedures in place for redundancy selection. The problem is that in some cases they have not applied the policies properly and there is clear evidence that they have not acted either fairly or objectively when selecting people for redundancy.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]One particular Director is a bit gung-ho and seems to think that financial constraints on the department outweigh any obligation that there might be on him to act fairly and objectively when hearing internal appeals.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Could I ask if anyone has experience of that sort of attitude and/or knows of any case law that could be cited to challenge his point of view?[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Thanks,[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Tempus Fugit [/FONT]

SarEl

Not applying polcies properly may or may not make a difference to whether it is fair or not. The deveil is in the detail of individual circumstances, and there are no details of any alleged unfairness in law here - just a general air of "it isn't quite right" and "it isn't fair", neither of which are the same thing as being unlawful. Case law does not work like you think it does. You need to explain what "a bit guing-ho" means exactly, and what is "unfair", and how policies are being allegedly breached. Without specifics nobody can give you a decent answer.

Tempus_Fugit_2

> SarEl. Thanks for your observations, will send a PM reply.