Reorganisations and Redundancies

We understand that in the current climate, it is essential for your business to make organisational changes and to manage staffing levels in order to be as profitable and competitive as possible, whilst ensuring that employee confidence and goodwill is maintained when dealing with redundancies or reorganisations.

Our employment solicitors are dedicated to assisting and advising on how to achieve your business objectives in the most efficient and practical way. Our employment team has vast experience in advising on plans varying from simple redundancy processes to complex reorganisations and collective redundancies.

We also have experience of designing, managing and implementing bulk settlement agreement projects and acting as independent advisors in large scale redundancy and reorganisation exercises.

We are aware that clarity on costs is vitally important to our clients. As standard practice, we give our clients an estimate of the costs involved in undertaking any piece of work at the outset. We then provide cost updates on a your case on a regular basis.

We also work closely with our clients to ensure that we meet their expectations both in terms of their objectives for a particular piece of work and in relation to costs. In addition, we are happy to discuss fixed fees and retainer arrangements and agreements if that is helpful to you.

Finally, your work is carried out by a solicitor in the team, who knows your business best. It is also carried out at the appropriate level, depending on the complexity, sensitivity and importance of the matter.

Recent examples of our experience in this area include:

• Hands on involvement in manufacturing site closure affecting several hundred employees including designing appropriate scoring and selection processes

• Advising a large manufacturing company in relation to a collective redundancy exercise involving a reduction of approximately 40% of its workforce

• Assisting a high profile national organisation with achieving a significant reorganisation in the face of strong union objections and in a tight timeframe

• Supporting numerous clients through redundancy processes, including consultation, scoring and selection, training managers so they can effectively implement change and providing all relevant correspondence and documents tailored to the business and the particular reorganisation

• Assisting a large employer with restructuring various functions, job-slotting and ring-fencing employees to avoid redundancies