If your business is facing a restructure or redundancy process, support is available to help both you and your employees.
What employers need to do
During a redundancy process, you should:
- decide which roles are being made redundant
- speak to all staff whose jobs are at risk
- hold a group consultation if there are 20 or more redundancies
- give official notice to affected staff, including when their job will end
Business support from councils
Your council can provide business advice and referrals to relevant agencies. It can also help set up on-site workshops to support affected employees with job search, training and upskilling, financial advice and benefits support.
Contact your local council at:
- Portsmouth City Council: a free support programme is available, email business@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
- Havant Borough Council: Economic Development@havant.gov.uk
- Fareham Borough Council: economicdevelopment@fareham.gov.uk
- Gosport Borough Council: economicdevelopment@gosport.gov.uk
General support from Jobcentre Plus
The Rapid Response Service at Jobcentre Plus can support you and your employees. Email rrs.enquiries@dwp.gov.uk and include: your contact details, your business location (with postcode), location(s) where redundancies are taking place.
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has redundancy advice and practical training for managers, supervisors and the HR team.
GOV.UK redundancy guidance
The Government has guidance on employee rights, compulsory or voluntary redundancies, consultations and notice periods.
Financial support
If your business can’t afford redundancy payments, you can apply to the Redundancy Payments Service (RPS), part of the Insolvency Service – GOV.UK, to make payments directly to your employees.