Getting redundancy right in Northern Ireland – Part 1: Handling individual redundancies with care

Employers in Northern Ireland are coming under growing pressure from economic uncertainty and increasing operational costs due to the rising cost of living and increases to both the National Minimum Wage and employer National Insurance contributions. More and more, we see employers considering and, increasingly, resorting to redundancy to reduce their workforce to weather the storm. In this three-part series on “Getting Redundancy Right”, we guide you through handling individual redundancies, navigating collective redundancies and managing those trickier redundancy issues that can trip up even experienced employers and HR teams.