by Mary Cullen | May 13, 2021 | Redundancy Management
Throughout the pandemic, many businesses have been forced to consider their labour costs. Given the difficulties that many sectors have experienced in maintaining ‘business as usual’, this has naturally meant lay-offs, short-time arrangements and in some cases...
by Eoin Lyons | Apr 6, 2020 | HR Support Services, Redundancy Management
In March, the Economic and Social Research Institute predicted that the Irish economy could shrink by 7% in 2020, with EY Ireland stating it could shrink as much as 13% depending on the length of the Covid-19 restrictions. For a nation still not fully recovered from...
by Insight Editor | Dec 10, 2018 | HR Support Services, Redundancy Management
Britain’s vote to leave Europe with no-deal has the potential to rock the Irish economy, with those working in agri-food, agriculture, traditional manufacturing and road-transport likely to be the hardest hit. Economic experts believe a no-deal Brexit will have...
by Insight Editor | Nov 21, 2012 | HR Support Services, Redundancy Management
When a company decides on a collective redundancy programme, one of the most significant issues they need to consider is what redundancy policy to use. There have traditionally been three policies available to employers: 1. FIFO or first in first out 2. LIFO or...