Central Office of The Industrial Tribunals: Redundancy Payments

Description and record details

Reference	LAB 36
Title	Central Office of The Industrial Tribunals: Redundancy Payments
Date	1955-1977
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.
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
Accruals	Series is not accruing.
Selection and destruction information	These files have been selected as representative of the most important cases heard by the tribunals.
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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