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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 ...
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.
"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.
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 ...
This part provides protection against "detriment" suffered because of disclosing information for public benefit.These measures were originally added by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and are intended to provide broad protection to employees to report criminal offences, failures to abide by legal obligations, miscarriages of justice, health and safety violations, or environmental ...
This principle is found in the common law, [382] and EU law, [383] There is an absolute prohibition on discriminating against trade union members, [384] and the EA 2010 protects the characteristics of gender (including pregnancy), race, sexual orientation (including marital status), belief, disability and age. [385]
Dutch law provides that a "transition allowance" (transitievergoeding) is due to the employee within one month of the end of employment if the employment was terminated by the employer and not the employee, including if the employer chose to not renew a temporary work contract, save if the termination was due to a grave fault by the employee or ...
In such a case it will be hard to overturn the employer's claim of redundancy, but a genuine redundancy can still be unfair dismissal. Even if there is a genuine redundancy, the dismissal must be handled fairly. [72]