What is it?
Managing Workplace Redundancy is an audio consultation, an eBook and a set of pro-forma letters providing comprehensive, reliable and up to date information for employers who are faced with making staff redundant.

Who is it for?
It is for owners and managers of small to medium sized companies (from one employee up to about 100 employees) who want simple, practical advice.

It is also suitable for managers who may have access to specialist HR or legal advice but who wish to understand the process for themselves!

What do previous customers say?

"I meant to add to feedback yesterday that I loved the quality of your voice in the audio bit. It was very reassuring and calm and conveyed a sense that dealing with redundancies is part of business life and, while not a pleasant thing to do, if handled properly does not need to be a hugely frightening experience.” Louise

“I was searching through information relating to redundancy for a small business - couldn't find everything I wanted in one place until I came across your site.” Richard

“The material was really good; easy to follow and practical and very helpful. I was making one person redundant and it was just what I needed. Thanks.” Lena

Who produced the package?

Bridget Osicki
BSc(Hons) DipEdHE CMCIPD

What is included?

First, it will help you decide whether or not a redundancy situation exists, before looking at a range of alternatives to redundancy, including alternative employment. This could mean that no-one loses their job and the company does not have to make any redundancy payments.

Sometimes redundancy is unavoidable so it talks you through preparing for redundancy, including selecting the employees for redundancy, describing all legal requirements and obligations and calculating redundancy pay. It also discusses other payments such as holiday and pay in lieu of notice.

One of the most expensive mistakes that an employer can make is to be discriminatory when making staff redundant. In such cases, an award against the employer would have no upper limit, so ways to avoid discrimination and ensure equal treatment are included.

A solicitor will only be able to advise on the legal points, but we will also offer detailed tips about arranging and conducting the redundancy interviews, and a checklist is included to help with this.

Every employee who is made redundant has the right to appeal against the decision. We advise you about meeting the requirements for appeal processes and provide a pro-forma letter for the appeal.

There are pro-forma letters for every key stage of the process, including a follow- up letter to confirm redundancy and everything agreed with employees

What do I get?

• Managing Workplace Redundancy - eBook
  This explains all the legal and procedural requirements and gives tips on how to manage the human side, plus a check list to help you conduct the interview.


• Managing Workplace Redundancy - Audio Consultation
  This is for those who prefer to listen, rather than read! It talks through the process, step by step, explaining points in simple and clear terms. It offers examples and more detailed advice about how to reduce stress and manage the whole procedure so as to minimize costs and avoid ill-feeling. There are eight short audio chapters, which explain the whole redundancy process and the advice can be listened to again and again if required.
  
  
• Professionally Drafted Letters
  Included FREE when you download the package! This is a set of pro-forma letters for each stage of the process so you can be sure that you have said the right thing to your employee and that your records are in order. These can be easily adapted for individual use.

• Managing Workplace Redundancy is produced by someone with substantial academic and practical experience
• The audio is similar to being spoken to by a person: lots of people prefer to learn new information this way rather than reading it
• It can be put onto a CD and listened to anywhere.
• It allows you to go at your own pace, stage by stage
• You can go back and check things out, listen again or quickly refer to the eBook. You can’t do this with a consultant or a solicitor: you have to do everything in the meeting time or in subsequent expensive telephone calls and letters
• Managing Workplace Redundancy provides fantastic value for money!

What else is around?

• There are solicitors selling advice on redundancy at around £200 per hour.
• There are companies selling pro forma letters and forms for about £30 each
• There are numerous websites giving little bits of relevant advice but you have to know a lot about the subject to judge whether they are up to date and if you have missed anything.
• There is absolutely nothing else that gives a simple overview for the manager who is working hard, in a worrying economic situation and who needs practical, sensible, well-informed advice in plain English that can be acted upon immediately. Managing Workplace Redundancy provides all of this.