Catalogue description Central Office of The Industrial Tribunals: Redundancy Payments

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Details of LAB 36
Reference: LAB 36
Title: Central Office of The Industrial Tribunals: Redundancy Payments
Description:

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.

Date: 1955-1977
Related material:

For registered files of the Arbitration Tribunals, see LAB 3

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 664 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Selection and destruction information: These files have been selected as representative of the most important cases heard by the tribunals.
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

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.

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