Employee redundancy: Why employers must follow the law even in the time of COVID-19

Rogue employers don’t mind if they kick us when we are down. That’s precisely what we have seen them do as Covid-19 continues to wreck havoc on the employment relationship in the country. Organizations of all sizes have been forced to rearrange their operations and even allow employees to work from home in order to keep some level of business operation.

This reality of our current existence has lured rogue employers into taking advantage when our attention is elsewhere. So, while we are trying to protect ourselves from COVID-19, employees are equally vulnerable to unfair termination. Before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country, employees were already faced with a significant threat to loss of employment through redundancy. For this reason, it is important to know whether your employer is following the law.