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The Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44) was a UK Act of Parliament that formed a central part of UK labour law. Its descendant is the Employment Rights Act 1996 . It consolidated two pieces of legislation, the Contracts of Employment Act 1963 and the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 .
Section 139 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 defines the two situations in which a redundancy may occur: (a) the fact that his employer has ceased or intends to cease— (i) to carry on the business for the purposes of which the employee was employed by him, or (ii) to carry on that business in the place where the employee was so employed, or
Dobie v Burns International Security Services (UK) Ltd: Court of Appeal, 14 May 1984. Dobie worked as a security officer for Burns International Security Services, who provided security at Liverpool Airport, [109] which was at that time operated by Merseyside County Council. [110]
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 ...
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 ...
Previous statutes, dating from the Contracts of Employment Act 1963, included the Redundancy Payments Act 1965, the Employment Protection Act 1975, and the Wages Act 1986. It deals with rights that most employees can get when they work, including unfair dismissal , reasonable notice before dismissal, time off rights for parenting, redundancy ...
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The Court of Appeal applied a "contract test" to the question of redundancy: whether an employee was redundant was to be determined by reference to the terms (explicit or implied) in their employment contract. This, along with the "function test" was subsequently rejected by the House of Lords in Murray v Foyle Meats Ltd. [3