Avoiding unfair dismissal claims during redundancies
Redundancy payouts can be a large cost to a business that may already be struggling, but there are ways to ease this threat.
Redundancy payouts can be a large cost to a business that may already be struggling, but there are ways to ease this threat.
Disgruntled dismissed employees are increasingly lodging General Protections (GP) applications compared to Unfair Dismissal actions, despite unfair dismissals still being more common overall.
In this article we speak about our top 5 “must know facts” about avoiding unfair dismissal cases. Learn what constitutes a harsh, unjust and unreasonable termination and protect your business.
Question – We pay our executives significant bonuses. In fact we pre-pay a significant component to them on the basis they will achieve their targets. Added to their salary, this would take many of them over the $108,300 high income earner exclusion for taking an unfair dismissal case.