C/L/303. Proposal. Does current UK employment law provide employees with a favourable position in terms of redundancy?

The dissertation proposes research into the effects of redundancy on employees in the UK exploring whether current legislation gives employers or employees an advantage. A review of literature is presented to indicate that for employers, redundancy can be used as a strategic tool to ensure that the firm remains flexible; for employees, redundancy can be a stressful period creating job insecurity. Although theoretically the law protects employees from unfair dismissal resulting from redundancy, the research seeks to define whether this happens in practice, using primary methods of data collection, i.e. interviews with managers, employees, trade union members and lawyers.