is there a legal requirement for notice given in redundancy?

Question

does the amount of people given notice, change the law for notice days given.less than 100 people 30 days given over 100 people 90 days.

Answer 1

This link will give you a great deal of information. The required statutory notice is one week if you have been employed for at least one month but less than two years, two weeks if you have been employed for two years, three weeks for three years, and so on, up to twelve weeks. After twelve years service, the statutory notice period is twelve weeks.

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Answer 2

The legal requirement is one week for each year of service up to a maximum of 12 and a minimum of one week; although this may not be what a company does in practice and they will usually have a set period which will suit the majority of people and any others that need longer can be given it. Therefore 90 days is above the 12 week maximum and will cover everybody.

The values can also be increased in the terms of the employment contract although i'm not 100% sure if they can be lowered. It should be legal if a montary compensation is paid in Lieu on top of the redundancy payments.

Answer 3

Wow, everyone's completely missed the point!

The law says that there are minimum consultation periods.. For twenty to ninety nine redundancies the period is set at thirty days before the first dismissal takes place. For one hundred or more redundancies the period is set at ninety days before the first dismissal takes place. If either of these deadlines look as though they're not being complied with then look into apply to an employment tribunal for a "protective award".

If there are less than twenty redundancies then it's whatever's "reasonable" but you can expect at a minimum to be invited to at least one meeting to discuss things before your redundancy is confirmed. This whole process can be quite legally done in about a fortnight. You're still entitled to your contractual notice as well, and a statutory redundancy payment if you meet the criteria.

Answer 4

I know of people who have been made redundant and have left the day they were told. I was never sure if this was legal.

Answer 5

it doesnt depend on number of employees at all. It is the individual contract of employment that each person has with the employer that dictates how much notice needs to be given.
This can vary depending on length of service at the employer also.

Answer 6

i always thought it was 90 no matter how many employees

Answer 7

Please tell me your my boss! Coz i've had enough, redundancy would be a nice buffer zone to find something less chaotic!!!!!!