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Redundancy payments

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  • Date:
    24 March 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2023 employment law changes: Four tasks for HR

    HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2023. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay.

  • Date:
    13 January 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law 2023: six key tasks for HR

    We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year.

  • Date:
    14 March 2022
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2022 employment law changes: Six tasks for HR

    HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2022. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay, and the end of HMRC's IR35 enforcement "grace period".

  • Date:
    3 December 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law in 2022: Eight action points for HR

    As well as continuing to deal with workplace issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there will be many other important employment law developments for HR to grapple with in 2022. What does HR need to do to meet its obligations and prepare for the coming year?

  • Date:
    9 March 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2021 employment law changes: Five things for HR to do

    While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Form setting out redundancy payment calculation

    A model form to provide details of how a redundancy payment has been calculated.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Enhanced redundancy payments policy

    A model policy to offer employees an enhanced redundancy payment.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Lay-off and short-time working

    The law on lay-off and short-time working, including the contractual right to lay off or put on short-time working, obtaining express consent where there is no contractual right, the operation of the contract during lay-off, the right to obtain a redundancy payment, and information on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and furloughing employees.

  • Date:
    20 October 2020
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Managing the end of a redundancy process

    Employment lawyer David Whincup provides practical tips on managing the end of a redundancy process.

  • Date:
    5 January 2020
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Managing redundancy: 2020 survey

    Our survey on redundancy and subsequent management of the process covers reasons for redundancy, selection criteria and levels of compensation provided.

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HR and legal information and guidance relating to redundancy payments.

Redundancy pay calculator

  • Is your organisation planning redundancies? Use the redundancy pay calculator to work out your statutory redundancy payment liabilities.

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