If there are ten employees you need to cut, shouldn't they be cut based on either their recent performance No, because layoffs are position-based. If it's a pe

If there are ten employees you need to cut, shouldn't they be cut based on either their recent performance No, because layoffs are position-based. If it's a performance related cull then that's not the same as redundancies. If you want to get rid of people like that then you need ironclad documentation and/or to provide generous packages.