Redundancy

[ExpApp]

I have an admin team that consists of 5 members, one of whom is a supervisor. We have automated the majority of their work and as such they spend the first two days of the week busy and then from Wednesday to Friday essentially twiddling their thumbs. The supervisor role has essentially become obsolete and at the same time the admin role is overstaffed.
Do I go down an overall admin redundancy and use a performance-based selection criteria, or is it easier to just make the supervisor role redundant?
Thank you

 

[Ozzy]

Someone will be along shortly to answer the legal question on redundancy but my question back;
Is there the potential to grow the business to fill their increased capacity?

 

[ExpApp]

With everything being automated and streamlined it is currently having the opposite effect, so in short; no.

 

[WaveJumper]

I would (if not already done so) check out the ACAS website but it sounds like you have already answered your own question, the supervisor role is no longer required and at the same time you need to reduce the size of the admin team.

If you make the supervisor role redundant who is going to supervise the staff going forward

Step 1: Check redundancy is needed - Managing a redundancy process - Acas

What you should do when you're considering making redundancies.

www.acas.org.uk

 

[ExpApp]

So, in essence, I can go down the supervisor redundancy route and also lower the admin team in one fell swoop?
We have two directors that work out of the same office that can manage the team along with a finance manager that can as well. Fortunately the team is small enough for this to be manageable.

 

[Lisa Thomas]

@Newchodge

 

[UKSBD]

We have two directors that work out of the same office that can manage the team along with a finance manager that can as well.

Do they currently do that?

 

[ExpApp]

Do they currently do that?

Yes, we do

 

[ctrlbrk]

So, in essence, I can go down the supervisor redundancy route and also lower the admin team in one fell swoop?

Of course. If one or more roles are no longer required, redundancy is the route to address it.

 

[HFE Signs]

If the position has become redundant and you have not other place to move the person in that position to then it is simply the redundancy process.

 

[Newchodge]

Start at the beginning. What roles do you now need to get the work done? Remember - roles, not people. Once you have that assessment it should be clear what roles (or parts of roles) are not needed. Then you start consultation with all potentially affected staff to see if they can come up with alternative proposals which reduce the need for compulsory redundancy (including voluntary redundancy).