Age discrimination: Cap on enhanced redundancy pay not unlawful
In Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie EAT/0024/10, the EAT held that a contractual redundancy scheme that capped payments at the total amount of earnings that the employee would have received prior to...
View ArticleImplied term made enhanced redundancy payment conditional on compromise...
The Court of Appeal has upheld a county court judgment that a term implied through custom and practice meant that an enhanced redundancy payment was conditional on the employee entering into a...
View ArticleAge discrimination: Avoidance of "windfall" benefit justified notice of...
In Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust [2011] IRLR 119 EAT, the EAT held that an employer that directly discriminated against a redundant employee by bringing forward his notice of dismissal to avoid...
View ArticleCalculators on XpertHR
A table providing links to the calculators available on XpertHR that allow employers to calculate employment law entitlements.
View ArticleEnhanced redundancy payments worked example 3
A worked example setting out how to calculate an enhanced redundancy payment where the employer's enhanced redundancy scheme increases the appropriate amount allowed for each year of employment by a...
View ArticleEnhanced redundancy payments worked example 1
A worked example setting out how to calculate an enhanced redundancy payment where the employer's enhanced redundancy scheme treats a week's pay as being uncapped.
View ArticleEnhanced redundancy payments worked example 5
A worked example setting out how to calculate an enhanced redundancy payment where the employer's enhanced redundancy scheme provides four weeks' pay for each year of service, regardless of age.
View ArticleEnhanced redundancy payments worked example 4
A worked example setting out how to calculate an enhanced redundancy payment where the employer's enhanced redundancy scheme applies different age bands to those under the statutory scheme.
View ArticleEnhanced redundancy payments worked example 2
A worked example setting out how to calculate an enhanced redundancy payment where the employer's enhanced redundancy scheme multiplies the appropriate amount allowed for each year of employment by two.
View ArticleEnhanced redundancy payments
Updated to reflect an increase in the cap on a week's pay, with effect from 6 April 2017.
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Victoria Bell is managing associate and Gerri Hurst, Carly Mather and Andrew Nealey are associates and Eleanor Cittern is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP.
View ArticleCase round-up
Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer and Ed Gregory, Rosie Kight and Joanne Magill are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
View ArticleEnhanced redundancy payments worked examples
Five worked examples setting out how to calculate enhanced redundancy payments for different types of employers' enhanced redundancy schemes.
View ArticleRedundancy rights: local authority
Updated to include information on the Government's response to its consultation on reforms to public-sector exit payments.
View ArticlePolicy on enhanced redundancy payments
Updated to include a reminder of the maximum amount of a week's pay for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy pay, effective from 6 April 2017.
View ArticleRedundancy rights
Updated to include details of the increase in the maximum amount of a week's pay for calculating a statutory redundancy payment, effective from 6 April 2017.
View ArticleAge discrimination: EAT considers enhanced redundancy scheme
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that, in assessing the employer's justification defence, the tribunal had failed to adopt a holistic approach and consider an age-related cap on redundancy...
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