Redundancy Selection Criteria Guidance - August 2026

9. Employee Representations

Once employees have been scored against the relevant selection criteria and assigned an overall score, they will be ranked according to their scores. This will enable the Authority to make a provisional selection for redundancy.

An employee who is declared redundant on the basis of the selection criteria has the right to be provided with the breakdown of their completed redundancy matrix, showing how they scored against each criterion and their overall score and limited information about their position on the matrix relative to other employees in the selection pool. This is to enable the employee to review the completed redundancy matrix.

Employees will be invited to attend individual consultation meetings to discuss how their score was arrived at. They will be able to raise any concerns, objections or challenges about their score and raise any other matters that they see fit about the redundancy situation. Employees have the right to be accompanied by a recognised trade union official or work colleague at this formal consultation meeting.

The Authority will give serious consideration to any representations made by the employee, but the ultimate decision on selection rests with the Authority.

Following the individual consultation meetings, the Authority will inform the employee of its decision.