Being made redundant is deeply distressing but making staff redundant is a lonely and agonising experience too. Dawn Langley offers comforting words on surviving the process.
This is the last in this week’s series about our collective challenge as a sector in relation to the current and forthcoming job losses. We wanted to approach it from different perspectives and today it’s the turn of employers, particularly those who have to face the agonising issue of large scale redundancies. Before anything else we want to highlight the issue of fairness. The challenges we are facing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic are beyond all our control and as result it feels deeply unfair, nobody wants to be faced with the kinds of decisions people are having to make at the moment. That said when implementing redundancies there is due process to be followed and at the core of that is fairness, something that will be scrutinised internally and externally.
We have already seen a number of high profile cases where it appears that the pain of job losses is falling disproportionately on those who are casual, freelance or on lower earnings. Questions are being asked about why that is the case and whether actions taken could have been more equitable... Keep reading on Alchemy Research
This is the last in this week’s series about our collective challenge as a sector in relation to the current and forthcoming job losses. We wanted to approach it from different perspectives and today it’s the turn of employers, particularly those who have to face the agonising issue of large scale redundancies. Before anything else we want to highlight the issue of fairness. The challenges we are facing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic are beyond all our control and as result it feels deeply unfair, nobody wants to be faced with the kinds of decisions people are having to make at the moment. That said when implementing redundancies there is due process to be followed and at the core of that is fairness, something that will be scrutinised internally and externally.
We have already seen a number of high profile cases where it appears that the pain of job losses is falling disproportionately on those who are casual, freelance or on lower earnings. Questions are being asked about why that is the case and whether actions taken could have been more equitable... Keep reading on Alchemy Research