Redundancies due to cost savings needing to be made

[hairyfairylights]

I wonder if anyone can help as my trusty HR person is away this week!

I need to cut a post from a team.

Lets say it's a hat business

One person in charge of managing blue hats
One person in charge of managing red hats
One person in charge of finding new hats

All three are same status in the structure(managers) and on same payscale.

Can I make the Red hats guy redundant and give the new hats guy his job, on the basis of the red hats guy being the 'last in' so 'first out'.

Is that a good enough basis to select him?

I want to retain the skills of the new hats guy, who used to manage blue hats. The red hats guy is only good at (and only has experience of) managing red hats. So the new hats guy is good at both finding new hats and managing hats of whatever colour.

Any guidance??

Many thanks.

Oh, I should add, the need to save costs is that we are losing some funding that currently pays for the guy to find new hats.

at first glance, I would say that making the guy who finds new hats redundant would have been the less discriminatory option and it's his job that would have to go. LIFO can be very dicey when challenged.

If you choose to bump the red hat guy to keep new hat guy, you may need some professional advice.

I would throw them all in a pool, restructure and either score them based on required skills for the new role or go through an assessment/interview process.

You're seriously asking on mumsnet about whether or not to make someone redundant? Maybe you should rethink your post !

No, I think she has to make someone redundant, and is asking about the fairest legal way of doing so.

I would suggest that as a post has to go, you then draw up two new job descriptions for the remaining work. Then those three post holders apply (and indeed anyone else who feels qualified to do so), and then you select on merit.

Why compo?? I'm not evil and it's not evil to make someone redundant. Either the whole company is in jeopardy or one person we can't afford
goes. I want to do it fairly and so that the company continues.