{"id":173476,"date":"2024-07-14T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/?p=173476"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:17:07","slug":"rehire-after-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/rehire-after-redundancy","title":{"rendered":"How Long After Redundancy Can You Rehire In The UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Making an employee redundant likely wasn’t an easy decision for any business owner, but if you’re now contemplating bringing that employee back on board, then it must have been especially difficult. It’s made more difficult still if you want to hire somebody else for the role and the previous employee finds out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s important that you tread carefully as a business owner when you want to rehire a new employee after previously making another redundant, as you could face an unfair dismissal claim as the previous employee may still be disgruntled from the redundancy in the first place. Whether or not you made a voluntary or statutory redundancy payment to them could make the process easier or harder.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But if you want to hire a new employee after redundancy, how long do you have to wait? Well, there isn’t a set time, but you’ll want to consider whether the following criteria is met:<\/p>\n