Employment Rights Act 1996

118 General.E+W+S

(1)Where a tribunal makes an award of compensation for unfair dismissal under section 112(4) or 117(3)(a) the award shall consist of—

(a)a basic award (calculated in accordance with sections 119 to 122 and 126), and

(b)a compensatory award (calculated in accordance with sections 123, 124, 126 and 127).

(2)Where this subsection applies, the award shall also include a special award calculated in accordance with section 125 unless—

(a)the complainant does not request the tribunal to make an order under section 113, or

(b)the case falls within section 121.

(3)Subsection (2) applies where the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason)—

(a)in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, or

(b)otherwise, for the dismissal,

is one of those specified in section 100(1)(a) and (b), 102(1) or 103.