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Employment Memo 2010 Newsletter Issue 1 (April 2010)

FOCUS ON — SUMMARY OF RATES AND AWARDS

Rates and awards

Maximum limit

¶¶

Employer's insolvency: guaranteed debts

£3,040 (arrears of pay)1
£2,280 (holiday pay)
1

¶9054

Failure to comply with notification requirements (retirement)

£3,0401

¶8223

Flexible working: failure to consider/correctly consider employee's request

£3,0401

¶4788

Guarantee payments

£21.20 (daily limit) 2

 

¶¶2924, 7867

Redundancy pay: statutory (SRP)

£11,4001

¶9005

Right to be accompanied: disciplinary/grievance hearing/flexible working hearing/meeting to consider his request to continue working beyond retirement date

£7601

¶¶6790, 4788, 8224

Statutory maternity pay4, statutory adoption pay and statutory paternity pay

£124.88 (weekly set rate)5

¶4401

Statutory sick pay

£79.15 (weekly set rate)6

¶4165

Trade unions: refusal of employment or employment services of agency on grounds of trade union membership

£65,3002

¶7590

Trade unions: employer's unlawful inducement

£3,1003

¶¶7573, 7582, 7593

Trade unions (statutorily recognised): employer's failure to consult on training

£7601

¶7388

Trade union: unjustified discipline, or unreasonable exclusion or expulsion, by union

£76,700 (maximum)2
£7,200 (minimum if applicable)
2

¶¶7143, 7141

Unfair dismissal: basic award

£11,4001
(minimum in certain cases: £4,700)
3

¶¶8575, 8577

Unfair dismissal: compensatory award

£65,300 (no limit where dismissed unfairly or selected for redundancy for reasons connected with health and safety)2

¶8587

Unfair dismissal: additional award (failure to re-employ or reinstate employee)

between £9,880 and £19,7601

¶8689, 7598

Written particulars: employer's failure to provide statement/incomplete or inaccurate statement

£760 or £1,5201

¶1465

Notes:
1. From 1 October 2009 (SI 2009/1903).
2. From 1
February 2010 (increase/decrease (SI 2009/3274)).
3. From 1 February 2009 (no increase/decrease on 1
February 2010 (SI 2009/3274)).

4. The first 6 weeks of statutory maternity pay are paid at the earnings-related rate (¶4493).

5. From 4 April 2010 (SI 2010/793).

6. No change on 6 April 2010 (SI 2010/793).

 

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