Employment Law Payments and Awards - New statutory limits from February 2009

Written by Ian Congreave - Filed under: Statutory payments and awards on December 8th, 2008

The following statutory limits take effect where the appropriate day for the particular payment, as specified in legislation, falls on or after the first day of February in the particular year. Section 34 of the Employment Relations Act 1999 provides that these limits are increased or decreased from 1 February each year according to the year-on-year change in the retail price index (RPI) at the previous September.
The increases shown for 1 February 2009 are calculated according to the statutory formulae and based on the rise in the RPI of 5.00% in the year to September 2008.

Note: *The Work and Families Act 2006 made provision for the redundancy pay limit to be increased on a single occasion by more than the RPI. The Government has not yet announced if and when it will make use of that measure.

Further information:
The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2008

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Written by Ian Congreave -

Filed under: Statutory payments and awards on December 8th, 2008