Employee Rep Training - Understanding the Redundancy process

In this half day course for understanding the role, responsibilities and expectations during a redundancy process, delegates who are newly elected employee reps or members of works councils as well as union representatives, and employees involved in the redundancy processes will learn about their role in redundancy processes. This comprehensive course equips attendees with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively represent employees during redundancy situations.

Course content 

• Role, rights and responsibilities
• Redundancy: The law and process
• Communication
• Consultation
• Healthy airing of disagreement: Consultation meetings
• Healthy airing of disagreement: Empathy
• Healthy airing of disagreement: Assertiveness
• Resilience

By completing this course, delegates will be able to develop:

 Understanding the extent of your role

• Legal rights and responsibilities, and the law and process of redundancy – Look at this training from time to time, to refresh your memory

Communication skills:

• Listening effectively to the views of both managers and all the people you represent
• Sending outward messages about:
  • the views of both managers and the people you represent
  • your role, and achievements to date - Emphasise your role is to INFLUENCE
  • realistic expectations
• Working effectively as a group with your fellow reps, and provide consistent feedback at/after meetings

Consultation skills: 

• Expressing the range of views held, offering options, and upholding management’s right to make decisions

Facilitation skills:

• Making it easier for managers and employees to air and resolve their disagreements in a healthy way

Empathy and assertiveness in difficult conversations:

• Speaking and responding appropriately to emotional people, and evaluating their views calmly and objectively

Resilience

• Maintaining the energy and drive to keep prioritising these tasks and having a positive impact