Legal | UK bosses lack confidence over redundancy decisions

43% of UK business owners are not confident that they could make redundancies in line with the law, a survey from BrightHR has found.

With redundancies hitting headlines on a daily basis, a further one-third of UK businesses are projected to cut jobs in the next quarter of 2020 as the Government’s furlough scheme winds down, according to the CIPD. However, redundancies must be handled with care, or employers look set to risk breaking the law.

But how versed are businesses on the legal procedures of letting staff go?

The survey of 2,000 small business owners also found that 51% of employers were not clear on the redundancy process during or after furlough, with lots of confusion surrounding whether redundancy pay is based on employees’ normal wages or their furlough rate of pay.