CMS Select (Redundancy Selection Criteria)

Employment law evaluation of transformation processes

CMS Select supports you at the planning stage when you are modelling potential redundancies, during the implementation process, and through to successful completion of the transformation project. The focus is on achieving your business objectives in a legally watertight way.

Based on your specific situation, we evaluate various scenarios in CMS Select and identify an approach that fits your particular case. Options include compulsory redundancies, a voluntary redundancy programme with severance agreements, and early retirement schemes.

CMS Select saves unnecessary work and redundant steps in the exceptional circumstances of a transformation process, thereby allowing you to focus on the essentials.

How does CMS Select work?

CMS Select essentially simulates the redundancy selection process. The relevant employee data (“social data”) is imported from Excel, stored on the platform and can be updated at any time, easily and transparently.

In addition to your direct CMS contact, we support you around the subsequent establishment of comparison groups by applying our technical processes and, if required, also by deploying appropriate project experts. The aim is to minimise complexity and take effective action. As soon as the preparation phase is complete, CMS Select calculates suggestions for legally compliant redundancy selection, based on numerous judgments handed down by the German Federal Employment Court and regional employment courts. This data is used to find a court-approved weighting for the social data (scoring matrix) that offers maximum congruence with your objectives. The findings feed into the subsequent advisory, negotiation and implementation process. 

Individual employment law measures can also be reviewed in CMS Select, in addition to extensive transformation projects. 

Benefits at a glance:

• Data-aided and implication-based planning of the transformation process (incl. reconciliation of interests and social plan).
• Automatic quality control and plausibility checks.
• Redundancy selection on the basis of many rulings at the highest judicial level/scoring matrices. If required, option of comparing these with the company’s own matrices.
• Automatically generated data for all necessary process steps (e.g. for preparing the reconciliation of interests, the social plan, works council hearings, collective redundancy notices, severance agreements/termination letters).
• Downstream project management platform for potential unfair dismissal proceedings.
• If required, you have the option of drawing on our project management office capacity for operational tasks. Its extensive experience can provide valuable support, especially during the more challenging phases. We have the right expert for every task (lawyers, commercial lawyers, project managers, business economists, legal engineers and programmers).
• CMS Select is cloud-based. All data is stored on CMS’s own servers in Germany in compliance with data protection legislation.

Interested?

Get in touch with your contact at CMS, or contact us at: produkt.select@cms-hs.com.