May I wish all readers of this blog all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year? I will be adding additional posts over the festive period, depending on how bored I become with eating, drinking and watching TV.
Employment Law Explained
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Redundancy & Redeployment
A recent case dealt with the obligations on an employer when making redundancies to try and redeploy “at risk” staff into “suitable alternative employment”. What does this mean though? In most consultation processes very little effort is often expended by the employer into fulfilling its obligations.
More from Alex
If you want a rationale for redundancy selection, look no further than the cartoon below. It doesn’t get nearer the knuckle than this,
Daily Telegraph 9th December 2008
Thanks be to Alex …
No, I’m not talking about the Chelsea centre half but the cartoon in the Daily Telegraph. His cartoons are worth the cover price of the Telegraph alone. Witty, ascerbic and they tell you more about City life than any number of learned articles or (ahem) blogs. For instance, see the cartoon for the 27th November last;
Alex - Daily Telegraph 27th November 2008
Redundancy – know your rights!
Judging from the traffic on this site, redundancy is the big employment law issue at the moment and not surprisingly given the current climate. 1,000 job losses announced this week at Nomura, 650 at Credit Suisse and that on top of the losses at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. In my day job I am seeing plenty of people from investment banks and beyond, all with concerns and queries about either being told they’ve been selected for redundancy or are at risk. If you’re one of those people what do you need to know?
Beware Festive Cheer (or what not to do at the Office Christmas Party)
Now that Christmas is in three weeks time it seems appropriate to repeat my annual warnings about the perils of enjoying the office Christmas party too much (assuming, of course, that your employer is still holding one).