Invitation for voluntary redundancy applications letter

Invitation for voluntary redundancy applications [Delete this line]

[Company name]

[Sender address]

[date]

[Recipient name]

[Recipient address]

Dear [Recipient first name],

Invitation for voluntary redundancy applications

Thank you for attending the [group/department/team] meeting that took place on [date]. As we informed you at that meeting, it is regrettably inevitable that the reorganisation of [Company]'s business and activities will result in redundancies. We anticipate that it will be necessary to make [number] employees redundant in [[Company] as a whole/the department in which you work].

As a first step, [Company] wishes to invite employees to consider whether to apply for voluntary redundancy. The terms available to those who apply and are accepted for voluntary redundancy are [set out in the schedule/available from [name of individual]]. You can also contact [name of individual] if you would like to discuss being made voluntarily redundant (for example, issues such as how this will affect your pension entitlement).

If you would like to be considered for voluntary redundancy, please complete and sign the [attached] application form and return it to [name] before [date]. [Company] reserves the right, however, to decide whether or not to accept an employee's application for voluntary redundancy.

[Company] will see how many individuals wish to take up voluntary redundancy and decide on an individual basis if it will accept those applications. It is only after this has been done that it will go on to consider whether or not it is necessary to proceed with compulsory redundancies.

If [Company] still needs to make compulsory redundancies, the criteria for selection will be as follows:

[List here the objective criteria for redundancy selection and how they will be implemented.]

Yours [faithfully | sincerely],

[Sender name]

[Sender job title]

[Sender telephone]
[Sender email]