Case round-up: Enhanced redundancy payments

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  Keeley v Fosroc International Ltd [2006] IRLR 961 CA (1 other report)

  • Contracts of employment: Enhanced redundancy payment provision in staff handbook had contractual effect

    Date:

    3 April 2007

    In Keeley v Fosroc International Ltd [2006] IRLR 961, the Court of Appeal held that a provision for enhanced redundancy payments set out in a staff handbook that was incorporated into the employment contract constituted an express term of the individual contract of employment, thus conferring a contractual right to the payment.