Restructuring & redundancies

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Managing restructuring and redundancies successfully is complex, but crucial. 

Providing support through processes which can be emotionally difficult as well as commercially disruptive, we partner with you to devise, implement and manage restructuring exercises, including those involving changes to terms and conditions. 

Our expertise includes supporting redundancy programmes ranging in scale from large and multi-jurisdictional to smaller groups and individuals.

We’ll work with you to devise and implement your redundancy and/or restructuring strategy, including changes to terms and conditions, redundancies, multi-jurisdictional programmes and individual, specialist requirements. We can also advise on employment tribunal claims and litigation – whether brought by employees or collectively by their representatives.

Collective redundancies

We’ll work with you (including where ‘fire and re-hire’ is contemplated) to:

  • Identify when the collective redundancy consultation obligations thresholds are met and help you to manage this risk
  • Ensure you comply with collective redundancy consultation obligations, including staggered and/or overlapping processes (as well as coordinating advice across different jurisdictions)
  • Ensure that obligations owed to your employees’ representatives  are met, with bespoke training if needed
  • Manage redundancy sequencing, pooling, selection and subsequent individual consultation processes 
  • Implement redundancy severance proposals, including preparing and negotiating settlement agreements or COT3s

We offer more than a typical law firm

Culture reviews

Our culture reviews enable you to look under the bonnet of your organisation so that you can understand what your staff are concerned about. A culture review enables you to get ahead of a problem and to address issues before they result in formal grievance processes or resignations.

You can use culture reviews to:

  • Understand anomalies – for example, if you have a team which fails to meet diversity targets, has high attrition rates, or low engagement scores. We can identify the causes and provide recommendations for addressing any underlying issues.
  • Address reputational risks, such as rumours of a toxic work environment.
  • Assess integration following significant changes, such as mergers or restructures.

Each culture review is conducted by one of our multi-disciplinary investigation teams, which include employment lawyers, data analysts and HR specialists, aided by AI analysis.

Each review is tailored to your particular circumstances. Generally, though, our team will gather information from a variety of sources and carry out a desktop analysis. They will conduct a staff survey and meet with small employee focus groups. They will then provide an objective and impartial assessment of any thematic issues which are damaging your workplace culture and the perceptions of it.

We can also recommend measures to address those issues, and work with you to implement them to prevent problems from arising in the future.

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HR audits

Giving your organisation a health check provides you with a snapshot of the effectiveness of your organisation’s policies and procedures. It also identifies risks and recommends improvements to bring you in line with best practice and ensure compliance.

Whether you need a general audit, or one for a specific area such as sickness absence, data protection, immigration compliance or workplace culture, we can help you.

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