Typically, a person’s first thought when it comes to the term redundancy is not positive. The word likely conjures thoughts of something that is no longer needed or, perhaps, is completely unnecessary ...

While the results of the FOI request showed that 2025 was the worst year since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 for planned or completed redundancies, the picture is looking worse for 2026.

If you are dismissed because of redundancy, this usually means that your employer needs to reduce the number of staff it employs. This may either be because the place where you work is closing down, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I can’t save every job. I can’t protect every single business.” The words of chancellor Rishi Sunak last week ...

Madeleine Pickles does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Welcome again to our weekly On The Money newsletter on personal finance. We’ve been doing this a year now and the interest thousands of readers have shown and the questions they have sent our way has ...

January is a time for thinking about new starts – but for one woman, leaving an old job behind had all the feelings of a split Talking about the day I was made redundant feels like talking about the ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...