Redundancy

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  How does the law define redundancy?

• Date:

  9 November 2010

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Cap on enhanced redundancy pay not unlawful

  In Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie EAT/0024/10, the EAT held that a contractual redundancy scheme that capped payments at the total amount of earnings that the employee would have received prior to retirement was justified as a proportionate means of preventing redundant employees from receiving a windfall.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Will an employer be liable to an age discrimination claim if it makes enhanced redundancy payments?

• Type:

  FAQs

  In which redundancy situations will it not be necessary to determine a redundancy selection pool?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Annabel Mackay, managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What should the employer and employee discuss at an individual redundancy consultation meeting?

• Type:

  FAQs

  For collective consultation purposes, when calculating if 20 or more employees will be dismissed, should voluntary redundancies be included?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can trade union representatives be the appropriate representatives for collective redundancy consultation purposes where the affected employees are not union members?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What happens if employees invited to elect representatives for collective redundancy purposes fail to do so?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Are employers obliged to accept applications for voluntary redundancy?