Redundancy and priority right to re-employment
Employment reinstated + compensation
Unfair dismissal and priority right to re-employment
An employee with more than ten years' service had been dismissed on grounds of redundancy and denied re-employment. The case ended with reinstatement, a lump-sum payment and covered legal representation costs.
The situation
An employee with more than ten years' service had been dismissed on grounds of redundancy and denied re-employment.
What was done
The case concerned the redundancy dismissal and the question of the priority right to re-employment.
The outcome
The case ended with reinstatement. The client received SEK 200,000 as a lump-sum payment, and the employer paid SEK 55,000 excluding VAT in legal representation costs.
Related information
The outcome relates to a previous anonymised client case. Every situation is individual, and previous outcomes do not guarantee a particular result.