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Change and reorganisation

This section contains information about changing and reorganising your business and your workforce.

It covers making changes to contracts of employment and the consultation that may be required, redundancy and alternatives to redundancy and dealing with the transfer of undertakings from one employer to another.

Changes to contracts

This section summarises the employment law issues that arise when implementing change that involves changes to contracts of employment. 

Redundancy

This section sets out the employment law framework for a redundancy exercise and also outlines the legal position if a company wishes to lay employees off or to put them on short-time working.

Transfer of undertakings

This section deals with the situation where reorganisation involves the business, or the part of it in which some employees work, being sold or contracted out, resulting in a change in the identity of their employer.