Redundancy

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• Podcast: Key employment cases for 2016

  Date:

  18 December 2015

  Type:

  Audio and video

  On this week's XpertHR Weekly, we look the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal hearing, British Gas Trading Ltd v Lock and another on the calculation of holiday pay and other key cases likely to have a practical impact on HR in 2016.

• Statutory redundancy pay worked examples

  Type:

  Worked examples

  Fifteen worked examples setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee.

• Enhanced redundancy payments worked examples

  Type:

  Worked examples

  Five worked examples setting out how to calculate enhanced redundancy payments for different types of employers' enhanced redundancy schemes.

• Redundancy consultation: maximum protective awards for former City Link employees in Northern Ireland

  Date:

  18 November 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  A Northern Ireland tribunal has awarded protective awards of 90 days' pay to former City Link employees over the company's failure to consult on their redundancies.

• Collective redundancy consultation obligations applied to US army base closure in UK

  Date:

  22 October 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Supreme Court has held that the US Government had collective redundancy consultation obligations towards civilian workers during the closure of a US army base in the UK.

• Collective redundancy consultation: Decision to close school unless pupil numbers improved triggered consultation obligation

  Date:

  30 September 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  In E Ivor Hughes Educational Foundation v Morris and others [2015] IRLR 696 EAT, the EAT held that the obligation to consult on collective redundancies was triggered when it was decided that a school would close unless pupil numbers increased - rather than when the final decision to close was made once the required increase had not occurred.

• How should an employer calculate an employee's length of service for the purposes of redundancy pay if the employee is paid in lieu of notice?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Relevant date of redundancy

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition of the "relevant date of redundancy" from the XpertHR glossary.

• Collective redundancy consultation: "Establishment" means "local employment unit", not "undertaking"

  Date:

  27 August 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Lyttle and others v Bluebird UK Bidco 2 Ltd [2015] IRLR 577 ECJ, the ECJ held that the Collective Redundancies Directive must be interpreted as permitting national legislation that imposes an obligation of information and consultation only where at least 20 employees in a local employment unit are to be dismissed, rather than where an aggregate of 20 employees across the whole undertaking are to be dismissed.

• Age discrimination: project manager approaching 65 made redundant

  Date:

  25 July 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  In finding that an older project manager was chosen for redundancy because of his age, this employment tribunal highlighted evidence of comments from the managing director that it was time for him to retire.