There are many different reasons for someone leaving your employment:
resignation, dismissals on grounds of ill-health, misconduct, poor performance,
redundancy or the expiry of a fixed-term contract, TUPE, retirement and, rarely
but sadly, death in service.
Use our guides to ensure that you follow a fair process and are aware of any
relevant legal implications.
Managing leavers
Exit interviews
References
Notice periods
Dismissal
Step by step redundancy
Redundancy
Redundancy pay - ready-reckoner
Managing "redundancy survivor syndrome"
Retirement - statutory procedure
Retirement
Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE)
Retirement: the Government has confirmed that the default
retirement age will go from October 2011. And an interesting case deals with
justifying a compulsory retirement age - see retirement
Enhanced redundancy pay schemes: the EAT has held that any
age discriminatory effect within a contractual enhanced redundancy pay scheme
which capped redundancy pay at the amount the person would earn up to
retirement was justified. See: age discrimination.
Employment tribunals - the Tribunals Service Annual Statistics
Report shows a increase of 56% in the number of employment tribunal claims
during 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010.
See: tribunals
Garden leave: the EAT has confirmed that an employer was OK to
put an employee on garden leave, even without a contractual clause to do so.
See: notice periods
Tribunal awards: the EAT has confirmed that an employer's ability
to pay is not relevant when determining a compensatory award.
See: tribunals
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