Policy on enhanced redundancy payments
A model policy to offer employees an enhanced redundancy payment.
View ArticleLetter setting out an employee's entitlement to a redundancy payment
A model letter to inform a redundant employee about the payments that he or she will receive on termination.
View ArticleLetter formally notifying an employee that he or she has been selected for...
A model letter when you have decided who is to be selected for redundancy and wish to formally notify an individual employee that his or her position is redundant.
View ArticleForm setting out particulars of redundancy payment
A model form to provide written particulars of how a redundancy payment has been calculated.
View ArticleRedundancy rights
Updated to include information on a new Government consultation on reforms to public-sector exit payments.
View ArticleStatutory redundancy pay
A ready reckoner for calculating statutory redundancy payments according to the rules set out in s.162 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
View ArticleLetter seeking agreement to reduce an employee's pay to avoid redundancies
Updated to reflect the increase to the national minimum wage rates, effective from 1 April 2017.
View ArticleIndividual redundancies quiz
Updated to reflect the increase in the cap on a week's pay for the purposes of calculating redundancy pay, in force on 6 April 2017.
View ArticleCollective redundancies quiz
Updated to reflect the increase in the cap on a week's pay for the purposes of calculating redundancy pay, in force on 6 April 2017.
View ArticleCollective redundancies
Updated to reflect the increase in the cap on a week's pay for the purposes of calculating redundancy pay, in force on 6 April 2017.
View ArticleIndividual redundancies
Updated to reflect the increase in the cap on a week's pay for the purposes of calculating redundancy pay, in force on 6 April 2017.
View ArticleStatutory redundancy pay rates increase for 2017-18
The maximum amount that can be used to calculate an employee's statutory redundancy pay increases to £489 per week from today.
View ArticleDiscrimination arising from disability: Absence was context for and not...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employee's disability-related absence was not the effective cause of the employer's decision to make the employee redundant. Rather, the absence was...
View ArticlePodcast: Identifying a selection pool for redundancy
In this week's podcast, we offer practical advice on how to identify a fair selection pool during a redundancy process.
View ArticleRedundancy rights: health (England and Wales)
Updated to include information on the repayment of contractual redundancy pay for very senior managers returning to the NHS within 12 months.
View ArticleAge discrimination: EAT considers enhanced redundancy scheme
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that, in assessing the employer's justification defence, the tribunal had failed to adopt a holistic approach and consider an age-related cap on redundancy...
View ArticleHow to navigate the outplacement journey
Outplacement used to be a service offered by employers to smooth the exit of key employees from the business. But now many organisations are using it in a more strategic way to ensure they develop the...
View ArticleConsultation on reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme
The Government consults on new proposals to reform the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
View ArticleSupporting redundancy survivors
Updated with information on trends in supporting redundancy survivors.
View ArticlePregnant women and new mothers need more legal protection
A charity has called for greater legal protections for new mothers, claiming the Government has failed to act on the recommendations of the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into pregnancy and...
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