Consultation process advice needed!

Hi all

I was told on Thursday 5th Feb that I was to be made redundant, effective from the following day. I had not been warned of possible redundancy and this "meeting" was the first I had been informed of the situation.

I had worked for the company for less that 2 years and the company has less than 20 employees. Legally, are they allowed to do this i.e. not follow a consutaltation process?

Many thanks in advance

Holly

Dear Honeybee

Your Company, regardless of the length of your service has to follow a statutory 3 step dismissal process. Failure to follow this will automatically mean the dismisal was unfair.

The process is:

1. Write to you for the reasons for the redundancy and invite you to a meeting
2. Hold the meeting at which you are entitled to be accompanied and at this meeting you can be informed of the outcome or informed in writing
3. If you wish to appeal hold an appeal meeting.

It seems that this process was not followed.

Also you should have been informed of the reasons for your redundancy and allowed to make representations against this if you felt your selection was unfair.

My advice to you is to write an appeal.

To enable you to view the full process and other information surrounding your redundancy take a look at the BERR website.

Hope this has helped

Best wishes

Carol

Many thanks for your advice. They did send me a letter following my exit from the company explaining why I had been selected etc. The letter did refer to my "meeting" with my manager which was simply him explaining to me that I was to be made redundant. I was told I could leave the same day!!

Is the size of the company irrelevant?

Dear Honeybee

It sounds as if they failed to follow the process. I would appeal against this failure and yes, the size of the company is irrelevant.

Good luck

Carol