Redundancy payments

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• Date:

  10 January 2003

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Contracts of employment: Contractual entitlement to enhanced redundancy terms arose by custom and practice

  In Albion Automotive Ltd v Walker and others, the Court of Appeal upholds an employment tribunal's decision that an employer who made enhanced redundancy payments according to an agreed policy for a number of years created a custom and practice from which the tribunal could infer that the employer and/or its successors intended to be contractually bound to make those payments.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer require fixed-term employees to sign a redundancy waiver?

• Type:

  FAQs

  In what circumstances might an employee be entitled to a redundancy payment?

• Date:

  15 June 1996

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Implied terms: No implied contractual right to enhanced redundancy pay

  In Quinn and others v Calder Industrial Materials Ltd the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's ruling that the employer was not in breach of contract by failing to make enhanced redundancy payments to redundant employees.

• Date:

  1 February 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Redundancy: Relocation clause defeats redundancy claim

  An employee who agreed to relocate but later decided not to move was not dismissed by reason of redundancy, but rather because of his intention not to comply with the relocation clause in his contract, holds the EAT in Richardson and another v Applied Imaging International Ltd.

• Date:

  1 March 1993

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Contracts of employment: Employer's attempt to withdraw enhanced redundancy scheme fails

  An employer had no right to withdraw unilaterally its employees' contractual entitlement to enhanced redundancy payments, holds the High Court in Lee and others v GEC Plessey Telecommunications.

• Date:

  14 April 1992

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Allsop v North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council

  In Allsop v North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council [1992] 90 LGR 462 CA, the Court of Appeal held that payments made to employees by a local authority as compensation for redundancy under a voluntary severance scheme were unlawful as they exceeded the prescribed limits.

• Date:

  31 December 1981

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Ross v Delrosa Caterers Ltd

  In Ross v Delrosa Caterers Ltd [1981] ICR 393 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that, although continuity of employment is broken where a redundancy payment has been paid to an employee and the contract of employment is renewed or the employee re-engaged under a new contract, this is the case only if the redundancy payment is a statutory redundancy payment.

• Date:

  1 March 1981

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Rowan v Machinery Installations (South Wales) Ltd

  In Rowan v Machinery Installations (South Wales) Ltd [1981] IRLR 122 EAT, the EAT held that the Industrial Tribunal had erred in finding that the appellant's period of continuous employment had been broken when his contract of employment had been terminated by the respondents and he was paid an amount calculated in accordance with the statutory redundancy payment provisions, in circumstances in which there was no liability on the respondents to make a redundancy payment.