Redundancy

Redundancies, reorganisations and restructures can create a lot of work and worry for all concerned.  Irenicon can help you in a number of ways.

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Employers

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You may want help to :

plan appropriate methods of selection
plan and implement consultation (individual and collective)
structure consultation interviews, dismissal interviews
draft all supporting paperwork from consultation letters to administrative help
plan your communication strategy and plan to support both exiting staff and retained staff

The service is designed to be flexible and provide as much or as little support as you need.  This can be done in a variety of ways including:

briefing programmes/training - we can use our redundancy training programme as a real time planning day to help directors and HR arrive at consensus on how best to proceed.
help structure the process from briefing and consultation meetings to appeals against selection
providing policies and letters to support the process from electing reps packs, to confirmation of selection.   We can also draft compromise agreements
advice by phone/fax/email/in person on legal and practical aspects of implementation
providing an additional and experienced 'pair of hands/brain' at a time when accuracy and speed are sorely needed

handling employment tribunal claims

An experienced consultant can save you hours of work and give you the confidence to communicate clearly with staff, managers, directors, unions and elected representatives, as well as individual staff.  This confidential service can make a real difference to the results. This support can take anything from two hours to a week, depending on the scale of support needed.  The average amount of time expended on a medium scale project is ten hours.  We can provide more accurate quotations and assistance

We offer new clients an initial 20 minutes advice free of charge, so you can talk to us about your plans in confidence without immediately running up an expected bill!  WE APOLOGISE BUT WE HAVE HAD TO WITHDRAW THIS OFFER FOR THE PERIOD APRIL/MAY 2008 DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND.  Click to see our fee rates.  Once your initial 20 minutes free advice has been used, you can pay securely online and take advantage of our prepayment rates, or open a credit account.

Employees

We work on an hourly rate basis.  We are not 'no win no fees' operators.   We take on only those cases where our client is likely to benefit from investing in our time.   We are successful in working for individuals in a wide variety of situations, but we do assess cases very carefully to avoid ending up with the individual owing us the same amount in fees as they gained from arguing!