LRD guides and handbook May 2019

Law at Work 2019 - the trade union guide to employment law

Chapter 7

Redundancy 





[ch 7: page 257]

Employers must not use discriminatory criteria when carrying out redundancy selection or allocating redundancy packages. See Chapter 11: Selecting for redundancy. 



In Whiffen v Milham Ford Girls School [2001] IRLR 468, the Court of Appeal held that a policy of making temporary workers redundant first was indirectly discriminatory, since it resulted in significantly more female than male workers losing their jobs.