The Employment Rights Act 1996 and Pension Schemes Act (amendment) Regulations 2017 The Employment Rights Act 1996 and Pension Schemes Act 1993 (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (“the Regulations”) make amendments to sections 166 and 183 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and section 123 of the Pension...
As the director of a limited company, you probably have some understanding of redundancy payments and how they apply to your employees, but few company directors know that they may also be entitled to claim statutory redundancy payments. If your company is struggling financially, despite your...
Do directors get redundancy? The conditions for redundancy eligibility as a company director include: Your company goes into liquidation or administration You have a written, oral or implied contract of employment Your limited company being incorporated for at least two years You have been earning a...
Directors redundancy When a company goes into liquidation, it’s generally understood that employees are entitled to redundancy pay. But what about the company directors themselves? Ultimately it is their business that has failed, and their livelihood that has collapsed. Unbeknown to many directors, the government does provide...
When a business fails, and cannot afford to pay redundancy money, employees can claim redundancy money from the National Insurance Fund (NIF) by making a claim to the Redundancy Payments Service (RPS). The issue becomes contentious when director shareholders claim: sometimes the RPS will argue...
Are directors entitled to redundancy? When a limited company faces insolvency there is a strong likelihood that, unless an Administrator can make immediate changes to restructure the business and make it both profitable and saleable, it will close. The consequence for employees of both restructuring and...
Can directors be made redundant? It is not a widely known fact, but company directors can receive statutory redundancy pay from their limited company under certain circumstances. If your company becomes insolvent and has to be liquidated, whether this happens on a voluntary basis or forcibly...
You can use the Statutory Redundancy Pay table to work out the number of weeks' pay you could be entitled to receive. To use the table, look up your age and the number of complete years’ service you have with the company. Where the two cross...
Redundancy in Liquidation An employee that has been made redundant by a recently liquidated, or soon to be liquidated company, who does not have a new job lined up, you should take their redundancy letter and register with the Job Centre as soon as possible, so...