Redundancy payments

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• EAT holds age-related severance payments not discriminatory

  Date:

  7 February 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  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. 

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 2

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee with normal working hours, less than 20 years' service and weekly earnings of £470.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 3

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee who has recently changed from full-time to part-time working hours.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 4

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee whose period of service falls into two different age bands.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 5

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee with over 20 years' of service that falls into two different age bands.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 6

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee with less than two years' service.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 7

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee whose hours of work vary each week.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 8

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee with normal working hours but whose remuneration varies according to the time shift pattern worked.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 9

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee with normal working hours and where overtime is payable when more than a fixed number of hours are worked.

• Statutory redundancy payment worked example 10

  Type:

  Worked examples

  A worked example setting out how to calculate a statutory redundancy payment for an employee whose contract of employment fixes a number of overtime hours to be worked.