Tag archives: redundancy pay

New law to ensure furloughed employees receive full redundancy payments

By Amanda Sanders (UK) on July 31, 2020 Posted in Coronavirus, UK

The UK Government has published legislation, which will ensure that all furloughed employees receive statutory redundancy pay based on their normal wages, rather than a reduced furlough rate. The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020 (the Regulations) ensure that various statutory entitlements based on a week’s pay and connected … Continue reading

Obtaining alternative employment and redundancy pay: Does the offer meet the test of acceptability?

By Amy Leonard on July 28, 2016 Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia

If an employee is entitled to redundancy pay on termination, but their employer has obtained other acceptable employment for them, the employer can apply to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) for an order under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) to reduce (including to nil) the amount of redundancy pay that is due … Continue reading

Do you need to pay redundancy when you lose a client contract?

By Global Workplace Insider Team on May 29, 2016 Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia

Section 119(1)(a) of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) states that an employee is entitled to be paid redundancy pay by the employer if the employment is terminated at the employer’s initiative because the employer no longer requires the job done by the employee to be done by anyone, except where this is due to … Continue reading

Entitlements to redundancy pay for employees who consent to an internal transfer upon redundancy of their position

By Michael Nightingale on August 17, 2015 Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia

A recent decision of Judge Cameron of the Federal Circuit Court (the Court), in the matter of Fair Work Ombudsman v F.L. Press Pty Ltd & Anor[1] (FL Press), has highlighted a potential discrepancy between the approach of the Court and that of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to redundancy pay entitlements under the National … Continue reading

Reducing redundancy pay by obtaining other acceptable employment

By Beth Kitchener on March 24, 2015 Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia

Employers faced with making a number of their employees redundant should always consider whether they can “obtain” other acceptable employment for their employees in order to minimise (or reduce to nil) their redundancy pay obligations.… Continue reading

Full Bench rules on the meaning of “redundancy” in an enterprise agreement

By Global Workplace Insider Team on March 10, 2015 Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia

Employers may have granted entitlements to redundancy pay through enterprise agreements in wider situations than provided by the National Employment Standards (NES). The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has ruled that the entitlement to redundancy pay in an enterprise agreement should not be ‘read down’ to exclude the ‘ordinary and customary turnover of … Continue reading