Making staff redundant

Redundancy is when you dismiss an employee because you no longer:

• carry out the business they're employed for
• carry out business in the place where they're employed
• need them to carry out work of a particular kind

Find out about making staff redundant on GOV.UK, including:

• employee rights
• avoiding redundancies
• non-compulsory redundancy
• compulsory redundancy
• redundancy consultations
• giving staff notice
• redundancy pay