Employment law question time – Redundancy and restructuring
Thursday 16 April 2026 at 11am
Our April essential employment law webinar is one of our popular online employment law question times. With major changes coming to collective consultation and fire and rehire rules as a result of the Employment Rights Act, we will be focusing on redundancy and restructuring. This is an interactive event that gives you access to a panel of our specialist employment lawyers who will answer your questions live. You can either email your questions in advance to employment@mfmac.com or you can ask your questions on the day via our on-line chat function. As well as answering your questions, we will also answer some frequently asked questions relating to:
- How to consult in a meaningful way
- How to identify the correct redundancy pool
- The best scoring criteria to use
- How to adjust scoring to take into account of Equality Act obligations
- Redundancy and maternity leave
- Rejecting volunteers for redundancy
- Fire and re-hire during a restructure process
- Alternative employment
- Collective consultation
- Dealing with redundancies post 1 January 2027
