Abstract
Compensation for redundancy was one of the first employment protection rights introduced into our law. The first piece of legislation was the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 and the law is now contained in the main in the Employment Rights Act 1996. The aim of a redundancy payment has never been to cushion a person over a period of unemployment, but rather to recognise an employee’s stake in his job. This means that it is irrelevant if the employee has another job to go to once he has been made redundant, he is still entitled to a redundancy payment. In addition, the employee’s stake increases the longer he has worked for the employer and as such his payment increases with age and years of service. A redundancy payment is calculated in the same way as the basic award in unfair dismissal.
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Further Reading
Boume, Redundancy Law and Practice (Butterworths, 1983).
Grunfeld, The Law of Redundancy (3rd Ed, Sweet and Maxwell, 1989).
Collins Transfer of Undertakings and Insolvency (1989) 18 ILJ 144.
Eady Collective Dismissals, Consultation and Remedies (1994) 23 ILJ 350.
McMullen Takeovers, Transfers and Business Reorganisations (1992) 21 ILJ 15.
Wedderburn Consultation and Collective Bargaining in Europe: Success or Ideology? (1997) 26 ILJ 1.
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Lockton, D.J. (1999). Redundancy. In: Employment Law. Macmillan Law Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15002-1_10
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