Letter informing employee of redundancy and terminating employment

What is a letter informing an employee of redundancy and terminating employment and when should you use it?

You should use this letter when you have reached a decision to terminate an employee’s contract with you, because of a redundancy situation.

This is the final letter that an employer would send in a redundancy situation, unless the employee appeals the decision.

The letter recaps the process that you have followed, explains the conclusions that you have reached and sets out, in detail, what this means for the individual employee in terms of their notice period and rights.

You’ll see that the template explains your continued commitment to trying to find an alternative to making the employee redundant, even while the employee is serving out their notice period.

The employee has a right to appeal your decision, you should inform them of this and you should be prepared for them to appeal.

If you’ve run a good redundancy process to date, you should be in a good position to defend your decision without external reproach.

Our step by step guide to handling redundancies sets out the redundancy process for you.