Employee-favourable
2026
If you're made redundant, your employer must actively consider offering you any suitable alternative role across the organisation, including a more junior one, even if you never asked and even if it wasn't advertised yet.
Employee-favourable
2026
A protective award of up to 90 days' pay is what you're owed if your employer skips collective consultation before making 20 or more of you redundant at the same workplace within 90 days. That still applies even once the company has gone into administration.
Employee-favourable
2026
If your contract points to an old agreement with a union or staff association, you can be entitled to redundancy terms set out in a document you have never seen, even years after it was signed.
Employee-favourable
2026
If you're made redundant alongside a large group of colleagues with no consultation beforehand, you can claim a protective award of up to 90 days' extra pay, but you still have to prove your own employment and dismissal dates individually.
Employer-favourable
2024
Being told your role is "at risk of redundancy" does not automatically mean the law treats it as a redundancy, especially if your contract already allows your employer to move or vary your role.
Employee-favourable
2025
Being told you're redundant because your employer is insolvent doesn't always mean that's the real story. Your job might have already moved to a different, connected company without anyone telling you. When that happens, that new company carries the legal responsibility for what you're owed, including your redundancy pay, notice pay, and holiday pay. Find out who really runs your old job before you go anywhere near a government claims form.
Employee-favourable
2026
A failure to consult before redundancies doesn't disappear just because the business has gone under, and it can be worth months of extra pay.
Employee-favourable
2026
If your employer becomes insolvent, a new company started by the same directors doesn't automatically inherit your job or your claim, and you can usually still claim unpaid wages, notice pay, and redundancy pay from the government's Redundancy Payments Service.
Mixed
2018
Your employer should normally at least think about whether you could take over a more junior role instead of being made redundant, even if you never suggested it yourself.
Employee-favourable
2012
Being the only person in your redundancy pool isn't automatically unfair, but your employer's reason for keeping the pool that narrow has to genuinely hold up, not just sound plausible.
Volunteering for redundancy can feel like taking back some control. Understand what you're actually agreeing to before you volunteer, including what it doesn't cover.
If your role is being made redundant while you're on maternity, adoption, shared parental, neonatal care, or bereaved partner's paternity leave, you may have a stronger right than you think: first refusal on any suitable alternative role, ahead of everyone else at risk.
