What this site will not do

What this site is

Redundant Guide is a private publication for the man who has to make other people redundant. It covers two things: what the weeks of carrying that do to him, and what the decision looks like from the other end, drawn from more than twenty years of ringing people after theirs.

It is not an HR service, an employment law service, an outplacement provider, a consultancy, or any kind of legal, procedural or process advice service. It is not a medical or psychological service.

The observations page, what is already visible, is not a test, a questionnaire, a screening tool or an assessment of your state of mind. It has no score and no interpretation, it diagnoses nothing, and noticing that several items are true about you means nothing clinically. The private notes on it are stored in your own browser on your own device and are not sent anywhere, not held by this site, and not visible to your employer or to anybody else.

The week after records what one recruiter heard from people on the other end of decisions like yours. It is recollection rather than research: no sample, no method, no measurement, and no claim that your own aftermath will resemble it.

It carries one page of definitions, the words in the room, with every entry sourced to Acas, GOV.UK or the Estatuto de los Trabajadores. A definition states what a term refers to. It does not state whether the term applies to you, what you must do about it, in what order, or by when, and the page says so before the list begins. Nothing on it is advice and nothing on it is a substitute for a employment lawyer reading your facts.

James Roberts is a recruiter, not an employment lawyer, an HR practitioner or a clinician. Nothing on this site is professional advice of any kind and nothing on it creates a professional relationship.

What it refuses, including when asked directly

• Employment law of any country. Consultation requirements, notice periods, collective thresholds, statutory entitlements, settlement or severance terms, exposure to claims, however they are heard.
• Process. How to run it, in what order, with what documentation, or on what timetable.
• Selection. Who should go, how to score anybody, or how to justify a choice already made.
• Wording. No scripts, no opening lines, no meeting structures, no prepared answers to what somebody might say. A script is how this gets done at arm's length, and it is the thing people never forgave.
• Optics. Managing morale, timing the announcement for effect, or presenting a false reason convincingly.
• Anything that makes the act easier to perform, or that reduces the human cost to you by moving it onto somebody else.
• Judgement of anybody you describe, including the people affected, your board, and you.

The AI guide

The chat is an AI system, not James replying live. It can be wrong. It does not know your company, your jurisdiction, your figures or your obligations, and it holds no professional qualification.

It will not diagnose you, will not prescribe anything, and will not tell you that a decision is right or wrong. If your message suggests crisis, danger to anybody, or an acute medical or financial emergency, it will stop and direct you to appropriate help rather than continue the conversation.

Do not use it as a substitute for an employment lawyer, an insolvency practitioner, a doctor or an emergency service. Decisions you take remain entirely yours and your company's.

If any of that applies to you now, read the safety page.

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