Redundancy Talks Period To Be Cut From 90 To 45 Days

[Bazile]

What's your opinion - is this a good or bad thing ?

//Employment Relations Minister Jo Swinson said the move was aimed at helping workers and businesses.//


//But Alexander Ehmann, of the Institute of Directors, said: "Companies facing problems have to be able to restructure swiftly, and a 45-day consultation period brings the UK closer to a number of EU competitors.

"We would have preferred a move to a 30-day consultation period - the same as for smaller-scale redundancies - which would have made the law less complex," he added.//


//Labour said the changes would not boost economic growth and the TUC said: "Making it easier to sack people is the last thing we need." //

//"These measures will not create a single extra job. The idea that an employer will change their mind about taking someone on because the statutory redundancy consultation period has been reduced from 90 to 45 days is close to absurd." //

//Unison's assistant general secretary, Bronwyn McKenna, said: "Any worker facing redundancy needs time to plan, to mitigate the impact on them and their family finances. Making arrangements to cover mortgages or rent, sort out bills, retrain and apply for new jobs all takes time and this cut will leave families facing financial hardship."//

[Old_Geezer]

Initial thought is that if a company is so desperate it needs to restructure that fast it must be in serious do do. In which case the employees rep would be keep to get things going anyway; so I don't see the need: unless 90 days minimum is compulsory even when all agreed earlier.

[pdq1]

As much as the Tories wish themselves to be seen as worker friendly they are creeping towards the Thatcherite era. Only recently they cut the time an employee could claim unfair dismissal from 2 years down to one. Now the halving of redundancy to 45 days. What next?

[tonyav]

Yes the Tories reverting back to form and showing their true colours imo.