Employment Relations Act 2000, s 103A
Your employer must have had genuine business reasons for making you redundant. It can’t be because they were unhappy with your performance or for some other reason to do with you personally.
However, even if your employer was motivated by genuine business reasons, the decision must also have been one that a fair and reasonable employer could have made. If you raise a personal grievance the Employment Relations Authority won’t simply accept whatever decision your employer made, nor will the Authority substitute its own assessment of whether redundancy was an appropriate business decision. Instead, the Authority will apply the objective test of what a “fair and reasonable employer” could have done.