Redundancy Pay - Entitlement

You will receive Redundancy payment only if you are an employee working with a contract of employment. Contracts of employment can be spoken or written and last for a fixed term or for any length of time. In law, employees generally have a contract as soon as you begin work and by turning up for work you accept the conditions offered by the employer.

• Usually Self-employed people and members of a partnership do not qualify
• Directors and other office holders may be employees if they work under a contract of employment.

Specific categories of people do not have a right to redundancy payments.

• Members of the Armed Forces
• Staff in the Houses of Commons and Lords
• An Apprentices whose contract ends at the end of the apprenticeship
• An employee at the end of a fixed term contract, lasting at least two years, where a written waiver to redundancy payment has been signed
• A domestic servant who  works in a private home and who is a member of the employer's immediate close family
• Share fishermen paid only by a share in the proceeds of the catch
• Crown servants or employees in a public office
• Employees of the Government of an overseas territory

NEW: Audio Information Service - If you require further information about your redundancy situation, Redundancy Help now has a new Audio Information service where you can telephone and listen to the information instead.

Current Recordings :

1. Redundancy Explained - do you know what redundancy is and what you should look out for if you think your job role is not redundant? (3 mins 30 secs) : Tel - 09067395380

2. Do you know if you qualify for Statutory Redundancy Pay? - explanation of the requirements for receiving statutory redundancy pay(2 mins): Tel - 09067395381

3. How to Calculate your Redundancy Pay - examples of how to calculate statutory redundancy pay (3 mins) : Tel - 09067395382

Please Note: Telephone call is charged at £1.00 per minute. If you experience any problems with our audio information then, please contact: 01903 820666