Insolvency

New and updated

• Redundancy

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the Government’s announcement that it has "no plans" to introduce emergency volunteering leave.

• Insolvency of employer

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the increase in the maximum amount of a week's pay for payments by the Secretary of State, effective from 6 April 2020.

• How much of an insolvent employer's debt will the Secretary of State repay to employees?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Insolvency payments

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect an increase in the cap on a week's pay, with effect from 6 April 2020.

• Compensation - pay and statutory payments

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to take into account an increase in the cap on a week's pay, with effect from 6 April 2020.

• How to stop your workforce going under when business is close to collapse

  Date:

  31 October 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  With the recent collapse of Thomas Cook and other established companies in financial difficulty, such as Pizza Express and Links of London, Barry Ross looks at the plight of the workforce when companies face going under and the role of HR.

• Insolvency: TUPE rights may be retained following "pre-pack" administration

  Date:

  30 June 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  The European Court of Justice has held that "pre-pack" administration, which is designed to facilitate the sale of a business as a going concern in the event of insolvency, may not prevent employees from having TUPE rights.

• 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.

• TUPE and insolvency: EAT considers limited circumstances in which employees do not transfer

  Date:

  22 January 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal examined the TUPE provisions that mean that employees do not automatically transfer where the transferor is "under the supervision of an insolvency practitioner".

• Case of the week: Failure to inform and consult on redundancies while insolvent

  Date:

  29 August 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  In DLA Piper's case of the week, AEI Cables Ltd v GMB and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employment tribunal, when setting a protective award for failure to inform and consult on redundancies, should have taken account of the period during which the company was insolvent.