Updating authors: Julian Hoskins and Sarah Lamont

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Summary
Future developments
Practical example
Action point checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
Definitions
The right to payment
Calculation
Exclusions from redundancy payments
Redundancy and insolvency
Lay-off and short-time working
Collective consultation
Individual selection and consultation
Remedies
Enhanced redundancy payments

Summary

9.401

• Although redundancy might be thought to cover any situation where an employee, through circumstances over which he or she has no control, finds him- or herself without a job, the law gives a more limited definition of what constitutes a redundancy. (See 9.403 Definitions)
• The law concerning redundancy and the right to receive a redundancy payment was introduced by the Redundancy Payments Act 1965, which was subsequently amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975, re-enacted in the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978.