Central Office of The Industrial Tribunals: Redundancy Payments

LAB 36

1955-1977

These files deal with appeals to industrial tribunals concerning entitlement to redundancy payments or to rebates for payments made under the Redundancy Payments Act 1965. The series also contains published reports of decisions of the Industrial Tribunals.

For registered files of the Arbitration Tribunals, see LAB 3

Public Record(s)

English

664 files and volumes

Open unless otherwise stated

Topics

Labour

Series is not accruing.

These files have been selected as representative of the most important cases heard by the tribunals.

The Redundancy Payments Act 1965 required employers to make lump sum payments to employees dismissed because of redundancy and in certain circumstances to those laid off or kept on short-time for a substantial period. Employers making such payments claimed a partial rebate from a Redundancy Fund financed by contributions from all employers as part of the flat rate National Insurance contribution. Various questions about entitlement to payment or about claims for rebate were referred to the industrial tribunals by employees, employers or by the Secretary of State for Employment who had responsibility for the control and management of the Redundancy Fund.