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A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...
"Redundancy" is a specific legal term in UK labour law with a definition in section 139 of the Employment Rights Act 1996: [18] see Redundancy in United Kingdom law. When an employer is faced with work of a particular type ceasing or diminishing at a particular location, [19] it may be perceived [by whom?] as obfuscation.
In 2002, the Court of Appeal ruled in a case brought by staff employed at Albion's Farington site in Lancashire, Albion Automotive Ltd w. Walker and others, [1] that a contractual term entitling employees to an enhanced redundancy payment could be implied into the employees' contracts of employment based on the employer's custom and practice.
Voluntary redundancy is when an employer asks an employee to agree to terminate their contract, in return for a financial incentive.
"Some other substantial reason" (SOSR), words taken from section 98 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, some other substantial reason of a kind such as to justify the dismissal of an employee holding the position which the employee held [88], is a "statutory catch-all provision", [89] [90] which employers use to justify a potentially fair ...
Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association". [3] Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor ...
The Redundancy Payments Act 1965 (c. 62) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that introduced into UK labour law the principle that after a qualifying period of work, people would have a right to a severance payment in the event of their jobs becoming economically unnecessary to the employer. The functions of the redundancy ...
UK labour law's central goal since the Trade Disputes Act 1906 has been for people to vote in their workplace, like in Parliament, [201] to achieve "a fair day's wage for a fair day's work". [202] This happens through staff organising unions , using legal participation rights , and collectively bargaining .