Lay off and redundancy

Tommy Max · 2020-03-31 22:29:22

Can anybody confirm if an employer is within their rights to lay off an employee if they have commenced a consultation period with the employee? The proposed situation would be to lay off for 4 weeks, then employee works one week to facilitate busier work load time of month and then it is likely redundancy notice would be…

31-03-2020 10:29PM

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Tommy Max

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Can anybody confirm if an employer is within their rights to lay off an employee if they have commenced a consultation period with the employee?

The proposed situation would be to lay off for 4 weeks, then employee works one week to facilitate busier work load time of month and then it is likely redundancy notice would be issued.

Can the employee challenge this and is the employer exposed?

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