Surviving Redundancy - An Essential Legal Guide

What do you do if your boss singles you out for redundancy? What are your redundancy rights and what redundancy procedure must your employer follow? 

With unemployment on the rise and widespread fear of job losses, it's vital that you know your redundancy rights when it comes to the redundancy notice period and redundancy pay.

If you're facing redundancy and want to know quickly and easily your redundancy rights, then this redundancy guide can help.

Surviving Redundancy - An Essential Legal Guide is packed with expert redundancy advice and will answer your questions on your redundancy rights including:

• How employees can be selected for redundancy
• How redundancy affects full-time, part-time and agency staff
• The redundancy consultation procedure employers must follow when making staff redundant
• Statutory redundancy pay and a redundancy pay calculator
• What the Employment Tribunal does and how to take a redundancy case there

As well as explaining the legal dos and don'ts of redundancy, this easy-to-understand redundancy guide gives expert redundancy advice on:

• Planning budgets and finances for coping with redundancy
• What benefits you may be able to claim after redundancy
• Coping with the stress and strain that redundancy inevitably brings
• Putting a winning CV together and setting about finding a new job or change of career after being made redundant

Surviving Redundancy - An Essential Legal Guide is packed with real-life redundancy case studies and top tips on your redundancy rights. This redundancy guide also includes sample letters which have templates on how to appeal against the selection for redundancy and, alternatively, how to volunteer for redundancy.

The Author of Surviving Redundancy - An Essential Legal Guide

Kathy Daniels writes and lectures extensively on human resources and employee rights. Kathy teaches at Aston Business School in employment law and employee relations. She also tutors and writes open learning material for ICS Ltd, a large distance learning organisation. She carries out a number of roles for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and has written a number of books for their publishing division. She is a lay member of the Employment Tribunal, sitting in Birmingham.