Unemployment in the UK is at its lowest since 1975, but despite these figures, there were still close to 100,000 redundancies in the UK in 2018. Hopefully you will never need to lay off any workers, but sometimes things don’t go the way you planned and maybe your company needs to let go of some employees. The criteria is used to help compare employees who are eligible for termination on the basis of their job profile.
Sometimes the methods for deciding redundancies have been agreed upon with a trade union, but if not, the employer may decide themselves how the redundancy selection process should happen. If this is the case, the employer may look at these selection criteria to narrow down the employees and make the decision a little bit easier:
- Experience
- Capability
- Relevant skills and competence
- Disciplinary records
- Attendance
- Appraisal records
None of the following points are allowed to be used as selection criteria:
- Gender
- Marital status
- Race
- Sexual orientation
- Religion
- Disability
- Age
- Working contract (e.g. part-time/full-time employee)