Redundancy Guiding Principles

Definition – ERA 1996

Section 139(1) Employment Rights Act 1996:
“[…] an employee who is dismissed shall be taken to be dismissed by reason of redundancy if the dismissal is wholly or mainly attributable to —

• the fact that his employer has ceased or intends to cease —
  • to carry on the business for the purposes of which the employee was employed by him, or
  • to carry on that business in the place where the employee was so employed, or
• the fact that the requirements of that business —
  • for employees to carry out work of a particular kind, or
  • for employees to carry out work of a particular kind in the place where the employee was employed by the employer, have ceased or diminished or are expected to cease or diminish.”

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