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(1)The amount of a redundancy payment shall be calculated by—
(a)determining the period, ending with the relevant date, during which the employee has been continuously employed,
(b)reckoning backwards from the end of that period the number of years of employment falling within that period, and
(c)allowing the appropriate amount for each of those years of employment.
(2)In subsection (1)(c) “the appropriate amount” means—
(a)one and a half weeks’ pay for a year of employment in which the employee was not below the age of forty-one,
(b)one week’s pay for a year of employment (not within paragraph (a)) in which he was not below the age of twenty-two, and
(c)half a week’s pay for each year of employment not within paragraph (a) or (b).
(3)Where twenty years of employment have been reckoned under subsection (1), no account shall be taken under that subsection of any year of employment earlier than those twenty years.
(4)Where the relevant date is after the sixty-fourth anniversary of the day of the employee’s birth, the amount arrived at under subsections (1) to (3) shall be reduced by the appropriate fraction.
(5)In subsection (4) “the appropriate fraction” means the fraction of which—
(a)the numerator is the number of whole months reckoned from the sixty-fourth anniversary of the day of the employee’s birth in the period beginning with that anniversary and ending with the relevant date, and
(b)the denominator is twelve.
(6)Subsections (1) to (5) apply for the purposes of any provision of this Part by virtue of which an [F1employment tribunal] may determine that an employer is liable to pay to an employee—
(a)the whole of the redundancy payment to which the employee would have had a right apart from some other provision, or
(b)such part of the redundancy payment to which the employee would have had a right apart from some other provision as the tribunal thinks fit,
as if any reference to the amount of a redundancy payment were to the amount of the redundancy payment to which the employee would have been entitled apart from that other provision.
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(8)This section has effect subject to any regulations under section 158 by virtue of which the amount of a redundancy payment, or part of a redundancy payment, may be reduced.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 162(6) substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(a) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
F2S. 162(7) repealed (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, ss. 9, 44, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 30, Sch. 9(2); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(2)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II, Sch. 2 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 paras. 10, 11)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 162 modified (1.9.1999) by S.I. 1999/2277, art. 3, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 3
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