Planning & Navigating Collective Redundancies - A Practical Guide for HR & Legal Professionals

Introduction

Collective redundancy processes remain one of the most legally sensitive and operationally complex challenges for employers.

This virtual classroom seminar provides a practical approach to managing collective redundancy exercises - ensuring compliance, reducing risk, and maintaining best practice throughout.

Designed for HR professionals, in-house legal teams and senior managers, this course combines legal insights with practical tools, templates, and strategic advice to equip professionals to handle these complex processes with clarity and confidence.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Defining when the collective redundancy rules apply
• Mapping the process: the key stages and how they interrelate
• Laying the foundations: building a clear and robust business case
• Communications - sequencing and strategy: achieving clarity and transparency, whilst maintaining morale and focus
• Employee representative elections: when elections are needed and how to run them
• Completing and submitting form HR1: notifying the secretary of state and avoiding personal liabilities
• Drafting and issuing the section 188 letter
• Designing and testing selection criteria - achieving objective, measurable and defensible criteria
• Avoiding discrimination and unconscious bias
• Managing and implementing the process - a step-by-step guide
• Responding to challenges and managing risk
• Managing appeals and grievances

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.