Toyota’s controversial strategy for making underperformers redundant likely to withstand legal challenges

Legal experts say Toyota's controversial use of selection criteria to make underperforming staff redundant is likely to withstand legal challenges, despite the unions labelling the process used to sack 350 workers a "sham".

Toyota informed 350 staff on Monday, 16 April 2012, that they were being made redundant on the basis of a selection criteria which used ratings on a scale of one to five.

In highly tense scenes, workers that had been picked for redundancies were bussed from Toyota's Melbourne plant to a nearby wedding reception venue, where they were informed of their fate.

Beck Angel, media and external affairs manager at Toyota, says it was "a very difficult week for Toyota Australia".

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