Redundancy payments

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• Type:

  Tasks

  Calculate statutory redundancy pay where the redundant employee has moved from full-time to part-time hours

• Date:

  11 June 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  Age discrimination: Higher severance payments for older employees were justified

  In Lockwood v Department for Work and Pensions and another EAT/0094/12, the EAT held that a voluntary redundancy scheme providing higher severance payments to older workers did not amount to unlawful direct age discrimination because the differential treatment was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim of a public interest nature.

• Date:

  26 March 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  Golden handcuffs: pilots who took voluntary redundancy entitled to reclaim loans they made to airline

  This unusual breach of contract case involving pilots who sought to be repaid loans that they made to an airline provides a useful reminder for employers of the definition of redundancy.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Make a statutory redundancy payment

• Type:

  Tasks

  Make an enhanced redundancy payment

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Official sources of interactive online guidance for employers

  A table containing links to government websites providing online calculators and interactive guidance for employers.

• Date:

  7 February 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  EAT holds age-related severance payments not discriminatory

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a voluntary redundancy scheme that provided different severance payments for two different age groups of employees was not age discriminatory because the differential treatment was justified. 

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Associated employer

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Week's pay

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Statutory redundancy payment

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.