Dismissal

New and updated

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  Quick reference

  Maximum unfair dismissal compensation award - historical data

  Updated to reflect an increase in the maximum unfair dismissal compensatory award, with effect from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Discipline and dismissal: financial services

  Enhanced with further information on steps to undertake on suspension of an employee.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Collective redundancy consultation

  Updated with amendments to the Employment Rights Bill around triggers for collective redundancy consultation. 

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Unfair dismissal

  Updated to reflect the rise in compensation limits for unfair dismissal, effective from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Automatic unfair dismissal

  Updated to reflect the rise in compensation limits in cases of unfair dismissal, effective from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Redundancy: statutory redundancy pay

  Updated to reflect the increase to the maximum amount of a week's pay for calculating statutory redundancy pay, effective from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory redundancy pay and employment tribunal award limits increase

  The rates of statutory redundancy pay and employment tribunal award limits increase.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Redundancy protection: pregnancy and family leave - protected periods

  Updated to set out the protected period for employees on neonatal care leave, as well as those who have recently returned from a continuous period of six weeks or more neonatal care leave.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Reform of collective redundancy laws

  Updated to reflect the publication of the Government's response to its consultation on increasing the maximum protective award period, which was published on 4 March 2025. 

• Type:

  Editor's choice

  Coming soon

  Updated to include detail on our upcoming webinar on ethnicity data disclosure.