Redundancy and restructuring – managing the change and understanding the options

Overview

Making staff redundant is a difficult but sometimes necessary decision.

This full day event will help you discover all you need to know, about how to carry out redundancies in the most fair and efficient way. It focuses on the legal and practical aspects of managing redundancies with an overview of restructuring.

Business need

This event looks at the options available to any business facing a downturn in activity or business transformation.

Options are not just limited to redundancy, and the emphasis here is on early consultation with your employees so that you can find the best way forward for both them and you.

By being aware of all the options available to you before you need to make decisions you will help your business and improve employee relations.

Throughout the day Acas will also demonstrate effective ways of weighing all the options in hand and performing critical assessments of organisational and personnel needs.

NB: If your focus is managing change or specifically restructuring, you may wish to consider our Change Management training events.

All delegates will receive an electronic certificate of attendance for their participation in the training.

Suitable For

Delegates from all sectors of industry including: managers, supervisors, team leaders, HR professionals, business owners, Trade Union representatives, employee representatives and individuals who wish to enhance their CPD.

Programme

Our expert-led training sessions are designed to facilitate discussion and interaction. This event will cover:

• Legal and practical options when considering redundancies
• Redundancy: its purpose and implications
• Redundancy selection criteria and types of redundancy
• Investigating possible alternatives to redundancy
• Informing and consulting your workforce: the legal requirements
• Selection criteria and fairness
• The role of redundancy representatives
• Statutory notice periods and redundancy payments
• Restructuring your workforce: communicating and consulting
• Managing change and the aftermath of a restructure

Please note our training events are VAT exempt

* Max of 4 delegates per organisation. Please call Acas on 0300 123 1150 or email events@acas.org.uk