Hi

We are shortly to commence a major restructure in our group of companies – one of the smaller companies is to merge with ours. By the time this hits us there will be one employee on maternity leave who will be seriously affected by the restructure as her role will very likely become redundant (as will at least one or two other roles) as the two finance departments merge. Obviously this is far from ideal, but cannot be avoided. Has anyone any practical advice on how to go about dealing with this issue and how we go about consulting her appropriately when she is not in the workplace. This is one I haven’t dealt with before…
Mrs Smith