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Sources
Every numeric claim and rule on this site is anchored to one of the sources below. We do not use secondary commentary. Last verified 2026-06-23.
Primary statute (legislation.gov.uk)
- Employment Rights Act 1996
- ERA 1996 s.162 - amount of redundancy payment
- ERA 1996 s.227 - weekly pay maximum
- ERA 1996 s.155 - two year qualifying period
- ERA 1996 s.86 - minimum statutory notice
- ERA 1996 s.141 - suitable alternative employment
- ERA 1996 s.138 - four-week trial period
- ERA 1996 s.139 - meaning of redundancy
- ERA 1996 s.98 - fairness of dismissal
- ERA 1996 s.164 - claim time limit
- ERA 1996 s.166 - payments by Secretary of State
- ERA 1996 s.203 - restrictions on contracting out
- ERA 1996 s.211 - period of continuous employment
- ERA 1996 s.212 - weeks counting in computing period
- ERA 1996 s.136 - circumstances of dismissal
- ITEPA 2003 s.401 - payments and benefits on termination
- Finance (No.2) Act 2017 s.5 - PENP rules
- TULRCA 1992 s.188 - collective consultation duty
- Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 reg.33
- Working Time Regulations 1998 reg.14
- Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002
- Agency Workers Regulations 2010
- Equality Act 2010
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
- Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025 - SI 2025/295
- Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2024 - SI 2024/322
Official guidance (GOV.UK / ACAS / HMRC / nidirect)
- GOV.UK statutory redundancy calculator
- GOV.UK Redundancy: your rights
- GOV.UK Redundancy pay
- GOV.UK Notice periods
- GOV.UK Eligibility
- GOV.UK Redundancy consultations
- GOV.UK Your rights if your employer is insolvent
- HMRC Income tax treatment of termination payments
- HMRC Employment Income Manual EIM13874 (PENP)
- GOV.UK Employment Rights Act 1996 statutory limits collection
- GOV.UK Employment tribunals: make a claim
- GOV.UK Agency workers your rights
- GOV.UK Holiday entitlement rights
- GOV.UK Jobseekers Allowance
- HMRC NICs on termination awards
- ACAS Redundancy pay
- ACAS Your rights during redundancy
- ACAS Redundancy pay (rights)
- ACAS Manage collective redundancies
- ACAS Voluntary redundancy
- ACAS Notice periods
- ACAS Holiday pay when leaving a job
- ACAS Fixed-term contracts
- ACAS Agency workers
- ACAS Suitable alternative employment
- ACAS Selection for redundancy
- ACAS Settlement agreements
- ACAS Early Conciliation
- ACAS Dismissals
- Citizens Advice Redundancy
- nidirect Redundancy pay
- Scottish Courts and Tribunals: Employment Tribunals
- Scottish Government: Income tax
- ONS Consumer Price Indices
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