Everything you need to know about redundancy payments including if an employer will not or cannot make one.

It's thought that a lot of the spending money for these would have come from redundancy payments when people lost their jobs.

In effect, therefore, the redundancy payment is based on final earnings.

The high cost of redundancy payments is in practice what gives employees job security.

But he refused the offer, left the company and claimed a redundancy payment.

Section 135 of the Act gives employees a right to redundancy payments.

Six months later, those people are still waiting for their redundancy payments.

So "good practice in the private sector" is to not provide staff with redundancy payments.

Ministers get about three months' salary when they leave government as a redundancy payment, I think.

Money from a redundancy payment should not affect your right to this benefit.