Redundancy Selection Criteria Guidance - August 2026

7. Making an Independent Assessment

Once the managers involved in the redundancy selection have been identified, copies of the redundancy criteria and scoring matrix will be issued and managers will be required to make independent assessments of each employee against the agreed criteria.

Managers should consider the specific details of the criteria and make judgements, based upon evidence, about the score which an employee is assigned.

When making judgements about performance, appraisal/review documentation should be examined and performance against targets should be measured. If during the selection process it becomes clear that employee performance records are incomplete for one or more employee, the performance criteria should be removed as a selection criterion.

If using knowledge and skills as selection criteria, the specific requirements in relation to these areas should be identified at the outset of the process, so that fair and consistent judgements about individual employees can be made.