Employment Notes
Tag: redundancy severance payments
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UK: Redundancy - EAT rules on approach to suitable alternatives
Employers considering withholding a statutory redundancy payment, on the ground that they have offered a suitable alternative job which has been refused, …
Spain: Increase in the basis used to calculate the severance payment for dismissal
On 3 May 2017, the Spanish Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court”) issued a judgment in which it declared that employer’s contributions to (i) medical …
Hong Kong: The labour policy promises of the new Chief Executive
On 26 March 2017, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was elected as the city's next (and first female) chief executive, after winning 777 votes from a …
Asia: Mutual separations and exiting employees
HR practitioners and in-house counsel have often had to think about mutual separations as a way to 'exit' employees. This month, we take a look at some …
UK: Voluntary redundancy - excluding employee eligible for early retirement is prima facie age discrimination
The EAT has confirmed that excluding an employee who is eligible for early retirement from voluntary redundancy, due to the higher severance costs, is …
Spain: Individual dismissals and calculation of severance pay and processing salaries
In its decision 75/2011, dated 1 May 2012, Labour Court 3 of Pamplona clarifies the method for calculating severance payments for unfair dismissal. The …
UK: Voluntary redundancy/early retirement: employers may be able to set budget and use severance cost as a criterion for selection of volunteers
An employer may be justified in selecting those with the cheapest entitlements under a voluntary redundancy/early retirement scheme when seeking to …