Acas, the CBI and the TUC have issued a joint statement to employers on best practice for handling redundancy situations caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The statement recognises that employers may need to make redundancies in order to survive, but it urges them to exhaust all possible alternatives before doing so and to carry out effective consultation with workers and trade unions. The statement then calls on all employers considering redundancies to work with their workers and trade unions and get the process right by following these five guiding principles: Source: ACAS | 23-09-2020Acas, CBI and TUC on handling redundancies