A little bit of clarity
Two points of clarity.
In the UK an employer can make any number of people redundant and recruit any number of people whenever they want. There is no legal time-block between redundancies and hiring. Whoever said there was is wrong.
There are issues in so doing - the individual could lose the tax-free element of any lump sum, and other minor issues, but that's it.
What happens thereafter - in terms of Tribunals, "fairness" and so on, is simply a part of the employer "clearing up" afterwards. The legal view of "fairness" is often not the common sense view!!
As a matter of policy, Unite do not "agree" the criteria for selection for redundancy. They may/may not be more or less vociferous if they are consulted about them, and do not disagree with them, but they do not "agree" them.
Could we please have a comment from a Bassa rep. about their "duty of care" to their members?