Redundancy Consultants
Navigate the complexities of organisational change with expert redundancy consultants who balance legal rigour with a human-first approach. We manage the entire process to mitigate risk, protect your reputation, and support your people through transition.
Redundancy Consultation Services
Genuine Redundancy Assessment
We work with your leadership to ensure the rationale for restructuring is fair and justified. By reviewing your organisation design, we help prove that a role is no longer required, meeting the "genuine redundancy" criteria to avoid legal threats.
Redundancy Consultation & Communication
Our team manages the delicate redundancy consultation phase, ensuring all affected parties are informed adequately and sensitively. We help plan and script these hard conversations to promote a healthy and fair workplace experience during stressful periods.
Entitlement & Notice Calculations
We remove the guesswork by calculating correct notice periods, redundancy pay, and final entitlements in line with HR compliance standards. Accuracy here is vital for preventing future workplace disputes.
Strategic Redeployment Support
Before proceeding with a termination, we assist in assessing whether reasonable redeployment options are available within the business. This proactive step is a key component of effective workplace redundancy management and legislative adherence.
Culture & Morale Preservation
A restructure affects those who stay as much as those who leave. We provide strategies to manage internal concern and bolster employee engagement to ensure your remaining team remains motivated and productive.
Risk Mitigation & Advisory
With big-picture thinking, we anticipate potential industrial risks or union action that could affect your business. We provide the objectivity that only an outsourced HR partner can offer to set your process apart from clinical, high-risk approaches.
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Our solutions in action
Genuine redundancies with genuine care
Our redundancy consultants work with companies to ensure the reasoning for this action is fair and justified. We promote compliance throughout the entire redundancy process, including calculating correct notice periods, pay entitlements and selection criteria. Imperatively, we will also support you through the communication of such a delicate situation.
With our HR consultant's experience and big-picture thinking, we will also be able to assess the situation at hand in full, anticipating any potential risks, opportunities and considerations that will affect your business and your people moving forward.
Why use external workplace redundancy management?
Impartiality and Objectivity
An external outsourced HR team provides a neutral perspective that internal managers often lack. This objectivity ensures that selection criteria are fair and that the redundancy process is viewed as transparent by the entire workforce.
Specialist Legal Knowledge
Redundancy laws in Australia are a maze of requirements that can be difficult for in-house teams to navigate alone. Our redundancy consultants stay ahead of Fair Work regulations to ensure your business remains in full HR compliance.
Emotional Buffer for Leadership
Handling tough conversations and delivering bad news is incredibly stressful for executives. By partnering with an external provider, you gain a professional partner to share the responsibility, allowing your leaders to focus on business continuity and the team's future.
HumanX Redundancy Process
Our approach is confidential, impartial, and thorough, designed to protect your business and your people.
1. Assessment and Scope Definition: We meet with you to determine the context and rationale for the change, ensuring the proposed redundancies are genuine.
2.Planning and Preparation: We develop a sound strategy, determining who should be consulted in an advisory position and planning the logistical rollout of the restructure.
3. Evidence Gathering: Our team gathers necessary documentation, including organisational charts and executive approvals, to validate the redundancy process.
4. Analysis and Documentation: We calculate entitlements, notice periods, and redundancy payments while drafting scripts and communication plans for the consultations.
5. Decision and Reporting: We facilitate the redundancy consultation sessions, ensuring all legal requirements for discussion and redeployment assessments are met.
6 Follow-up: We provide ongoing support for your remaining team to maintain morale and help transition departing employees with dignity and respect.
Have a question about Redundancy Consultation?
What makes a redundancy "genuine" under Australian law?
For a redundancy to be considered genuine, the employer must no longer require the person’s job to be performed by anyone because of changes in the operational requirements of the business. Additionally, the employer must have complied with any obligation in a modern award or enterprise agreement to consult about the redundancy. Our redundancy consultants help you verify these facts to ensure your actions meet Fair Work standards.
How does the redundancy consultation process work?
Redundancy consultation involves meeting with affected employees to discuss the proposed changes, listening to their feedback, and considering any suggestions to avoid redundancy. This is a mandatory step for many employees covered by awards or agreements. We assist by planning, scripting, and often facilitating these meetings to ensure they are handled professionally and empathetically.
What are the risks of mishandling the redundancy process?
Mishandled redundancies can lead to disgruntled employees, significant damage to your workplace culture, and expensive legal claims. Research suggests that unfair dismissal claims can cost employers upwards of $13,500 per claim, and this figure can rise significantly if union action is involved. Engaging an external employee relations specialist helps mitigate these risks.
How can I support the employees who remain after a restructure?
Maintaining morale is vital for business continuity. We recommend open communication and focusing on employee engagement to address anxiety. Our consultants provide leadership coaching to help your managers lead their teams through the transition and maintain a positive workplace culture.
Our Clients say it best
"I was impressed with HumanX's outsourced HR services. Their team was knowledgeable and tailored their approach to our needs, significantly improving our HR processes. Highly recommend for any business seeking expert HR support."
Do you recognise your company in any of these scenarios?
Our HR is too Toby-from-the-office
Everyone has strengths, both as professionals and as people. There are many situations in which using an external HR consultant is a more effective option.
Ultimately, HR can be a tricky position to hold in an organisation; striking the balance between employee-support and communicating the company’s message; empathy versus becoming an agony aunt; being the champion of culture whilst also being the person managing risk.
Bringing in HumanX to support your team means that everyone can play to their strengths. Our experts can create space for critical conversations, feedback honestly, without agenda, and help leaders make decisions based on real information. We can support Toby with performance management plans and work to achieve company goals together.
Our HR department needs support
Modern HR leaders require skills in project management, business strategy, commercial awareness, coaching, talent management, compliance and workplace relations, remuneration, learning and development, and of course recruitment.
Outsourced HR experts can support the internal team without the distractions of politics, everyday requests and growing to do lists. Able to operate as an independent squad with a single focus or integrate into the team and fly alongside the existing HR managers to lead and deliver on projects, new initiatives or help cope with capacity.
Need to get more out of the experts you already have
For business leaders who are craving space – both time and brain-space - a great HR team will understand that it is their job to enable people to do their best work. Choosing the right talent (or inviting the right talent to choose your business), designing a best-in-class learning and development program, and ensuring that your remuneration strategy is on point will help.
The gamechanger: coaching your leaders. This is the space where humans will grow, engage, and find their superpowers. Coaching is a skill in itself, it’s not every leader’s natural state. Great HR professionals have been equipped with coaching skills and understand that coaching is an ego-less journey that is critical to developing exceptional leaders. Structured coaching programs are a brilliant extra, but coaching in the workflow, and in day-to-day interactions between HR and leaders is a valuable must-have.
My team tells me that communication needs improvement
If your team is feeding back to you that communication in the organisation needs improvement, they’re trying to tell you (without risking their jobs) that your communication needs improvement. Whether this is your communication directly, or as a leadership team, or simply internal systems and processes are not effective at allowing the flow of information, we can help.
Bringing external HR experts into a situation like this is efficient; we are able to zoom out and diagnose issues and challenges - from communication that may be causing frustration and high employee turnover to the root cause of disengagement. Better than that, we will also work with your organisation to develop the HR function to resolve any concerns, improve processes and mature the company’s approach to your people.
Make your company stronger. Starting with your people.
Research indicates that unfair dismissals can be costing Australian employers $13500 per claim. This fee can be a lot, lot higher. Particularly if industrial or union action takes place. These risks can be mitigated when you have an experienced team supporting the redundancy process.
HumanX HR bring unparalleled knowledge and experience to the table. But we are also strategic business experts. We can help your company think three steps ahead, whilst never losing perspective on your people. Everything we do is founded in our core values, which is why we are the trusted redundancy consultants.
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Outsourced HR
HumanX is an award-winning HR Outsourcing agency based in Australia. We design HR Outsourced solutions based on trusted frameworks and class leading industry experience. A perfect blend of strategic and tactical HR solutions that will elevate the human experience in your workplace.
HR Consulting
With our HR agency, boost your internal capability and see better results in less time. Engage a consultant or team to drive and lead HR initiatives that lead to incredible company-wide results. We can develop or pick up HR projects that you just can’t get traction with or assist with a particular isolated problem.
HR Foundations
How can you expect to build a solid team without solid foundations? Here at HumanX, we know your eyes are set to the future with plans for growth and projects on the horizon, but you can’t get there if your people aren’t with you and you aren’t protected. Work with HumanX to develop functional processes, reliable boundaries and compliances that set your company up for future success and solid HR foundations.
Learning & Development
Learning & development (L&D) is essential for organisational performance, employee buy-in and staying competitive in the market. Learning and development specialists promote productivity, innovation, and adaptability, leading to improved business outcomes, revenue & longevity. HumanX learning & development consultants can help you stay on top of change.
Employee Relations
Your people are your power and your relationships are what connect you. Creating a strong framework for your employee relations can protect your business when you need it most – and when you least expect it. Our employee relations consultants are qualified and bring a human-centric approach to workplace investigations, mediations, disciplinary matters, terminations and other disputes.
