Navigate Redundancies Lawfully & Easily
Employment law software that makes it easier for businesses to comply with the numerous obligations under the Fair Work Act.
If you're considering making an employee redundant, you need Breeze.
Expert employment lawyers created Breeze to assist business owners, HR professionals and managers to comply with their legal obligations, ensuring that redundancies are carried out lawfully.
Built for
Business Owners Managers HR Professionals Start-ups SMEs
Reduce Legal Claims
If a redundancy is done incorrectly, the business, owners and managers can be sued by employees or the Ombudsman.
Step-by-Step Guidance
Breeze guides you each step of the way to ensure your the correctly and according to the law.
No Legal Jargon
Easily move through each step of the redundancy without needing a law degree.
Created by Employment Lawyers
Created by award-winning specialist employment lawyers with over 15 years experience.
Save thousands of dollars
Save thousands of dollars on legal fees by using Breeze
Don't Let This Happen to You
* Source: Fair Work Commission Annual Report 2022–23
11,012
Unfair Dismissal Applications*
(2022-23 FY)
5,819
General Protections Applications*
( 2022-23 FY)
$450 to $770
per hour
What A Lawyer Could Cost You?
Avoid $93,900 Penalties
The Fair Work Act has fines up to $18,780 per contravention for an individual and $93,900 per contravention for companies for breaches of the National Employment Standards, modern awards, various provisions of the Act and EBAs.
EXAMPLE
In Ghobrial v Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (2022), a business failed to consult property by:
- Failing to have discussions with employees about the redundancy before it occurred, and
- Put required information in writing.
In this case the penalty imposed was:
- $25,200 in respect of failing to have discussions, and
- $6,300 in respect of failing to put the relevant information in writing.
Reduce The Risk of Employees Making A Claim
If a redundancy is managed incorrectly, employees can lodge various claims, including unfair dismissal and general protections. Breeze guides you through the process, helping you understand the main legal risks that the business faces, how to identify them, and how to mitigate against them.
Step-by-Step Guidance
Breeze prepares you by providing a step-by-step process to ensure that your redundancy is done lawfully.
Breeze ensures that you comply with all necessary steps to correctly implement a redundancy. A genuine redundancy requires several factors to be satisfied. These include the fact that the position is no longer required, the business has complied with its consultation requirements under an award or an enterprise agreement, and the employee cannot be redeployed to another position within the organisation or an associated entity.
Breeze simplifies the law, making it comprehensible. Each step requires certain questions to be answered, so you can be confident that risks are mitigated.
Breeze aids you in understanding what meetings and discussions must take place with employees to satisfy legal requirements, including consultation. Breeze provides detailed information at each step.
You Can Be Sued Personally If You Get It Wrong
If an important step is missed, an employee can sue. It's vital to remember that both the business and any individuals involved in breaching the Fair Work Act can be implicated. This means that you can personally be joined if you incorrectly violate the Fair Work Act when undertaking a redundancy.
It's not just the business that can be sued. The owners, managers and HR professionals can be joined personally under s 550 of the Fair Work Act to any breaches of the National Employment Standards, a modern Award and an EBA.
How else can Breeze help
you with redundancies
Save thousands on legal fees
Breeze was created by expert employment lawyers, so you don't have to spend money on costly lawyers charging $500 to $700 per hour.
Legal Templates Provided
Breeze provides templates that you can download and fill in at every step of the way. These templates were created and vetted by expert employment lawyers.
Save Time
Save time by using Breeze to guide you or your team through each redundancy step properly.
The Breeze Redundancy Process
1
Gather Employee Details
Breeze collects the relevant details about the employee including determining if the employee is eligible to lodge an Unfair Dismissal claim or if there are significant risks of a general protections claim being brought.
2
Genuine Redundancy Analysis
Breeze determines if the redundancy meets the requirements of genuine redundancy under the Fair Work Act, because getting this wrong can expose the business to various claims by the employee.
3
Consultation
Breeze provides information on how to properly conduct a consultation with the employee, including providing you with the templates you need to make sure it’s done in a compliant way.
4
Lawfully Ending Employment
Breeze takes you through the steps, including providing you with the templates you need, to dismiss the employee due to redundancy, should that be your decision after consultation.
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