Staff Redundancy

This policy sets out The Bristol Bike Project’s (BBP) approach to dealing with potential redundancies. It does not form part of the employees’ terms and conditions of employment and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Directors Group.

Although the company’s policy is to avoid redundancies wherever possible, the needs of the business may from time to time require a reduction in the overall number of staff employed or organisational changes that result in some employees being made redundant.

Where this is necessary, BBP’s policy will ensure that:

• the total number of redundancies made is kept to a minimum;

• employees are fully consulted on any proposals and their implementation;

• selection for redundancy is based on clear criteria that will, as far as possible, be objectively and fairly applied;

• every effort is made to redeploy or find alternative work for employees selected for redundancy

Consultation

A consultation to discuss options and the possibility of avoiding redundancies will be held with all potentially affected employees at least 30 days before any notification of dismissal.

All employees will be consulted individually in respect of their own particular circumstances.

Voluntary redundancy

In order to minimise the need for compulsory redundancies, the Director’s Group may consider requests from employees for voluntary redundancies. Whether or not additional payments will be offered in relation to voluntary redundancies will be a matter for consultation and will depend on the circumstances.

BBP reserves the right at its absolute discretion to decline requests for voluntary redundancy.

Redundancy selection

The criteria used in selecting employees for redundancy will depend on the existing circumstances and the particular needs of BBP at the time. However, every effort will be made to construct a fair and robust set of criteria following appropriate consultations. Individual employees who are provisionally selected for redundancy following the application of the criteria will be informed of the fact and invited to a meeting, at which they will be given an opportunity to make representations that the application of the criteria results in unfairness to them or if they feel that there has been a mistake in the application of the criteria.

Alternative work

BBP will make every effort to redeploy to suitable alternative work any employee who is selected for redundancy. Such employees will be informed of all the available vacancies at BBP at the time of their selection and will be given an opportunity to discuss which vacancies are likely to be suitable for them. While priority will be given wherever possible to employees under threat of redundancy, the company reserves the right to select the best available candidate in relation to any given vacancy.

BBP’s Redundancy Payment Policy

BBP will pay 0.5 month's-average-pay per year of employment for all salaried staff (and with a length of time of under 12 months rounded up to 1 full year).

In the event of having to wrap-up the organisation, we will offer a goodwill payment of 0.5 month's-average-pay for freelance staff who’ve been with us for at least 2 years.

Reviewed: May 2022 / Review due: May 2024