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Level 5 Diploma in Law

Consequences of redundancy: redundancy pay, alternative employment, TUPE

LAW504 · Employment Law — Week 9 of 16

CourseLAW504
Week9 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Consequences of redundancy: redundancy pay, alternative employment, TUPE

  1. Consequences of redundancy: redundancy pay, alternative employment, TUPE
  2. Fair and unfair redundancy dismissals
  3. Protective awards

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Explain the legal consequences of redundancy.
  • 3.4 Analyse an issue or situation based on an understanding of laws governing redundancy.
  • 3.5 Evaluate a given issue or situation to predict probable legal implications arising from redundancy.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the legal consequences of redundancy.

Study materials

The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Development, sources and institutions of employment law
  • Week 2: Forming the contract of employment: express and implied ter…
  • Week 3: Unfair, automatically unfair, constructive and wrongful dis…
  • Week 4: Equality Act 2010: protected characteristics, direct and in…
  • Week 5: Equal pay, the equality clause, equal value and defences
  • Week 6: Enforcing discrimination law: tribunal procedure, time limi…
  • Week 7: When redundancy arises
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Consequences of redundancy: redundancy pay, alternative emp…
  • Week 10: Flexible working rights
  • Week 11: The gig economy and zero-hour contracts; recent and future …
  • Week 12: Applying Employment Law in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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