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An employer has acknowledged its failure to use internal HR support before making an employee's role redundant, which resulted in an order to pay $20k for unfair dismissal.

The Master Butchers Co-operative claimed that the factory hand's role was genuinely redundant, but the employee disagreed, alleging the employer unfairly dismissed him and failed to afford him procedural and substantive fairness.

The employer's HR manager had only been working in her role for two months when the dismissal occurred, "however, she was on board at the time relevant decisions were made, could have been (but wasn't) brought into the decision-making, and participated fully in giving effect to the dismissal even though she had no more than a couple of hours' notice", Deputy President Peter Anderson said...