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 - the statutory procedure
Managing retirement
Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE)
Retirement: January 4 2012 was the last date on which an employee
can make a statutory request not to retire on his/her intended date of retirement
under the previous statutory retirement procedure.
See: retirement.
Increases to statutory rates: as from 1 February the rates for a
"week's pay", guarantee pay, and the maximum unfair dismissal compensatory
award will increase.
See: key statistics
Pensions: the State Pension Age will increase to 66 for both men
and women by 2020 and the Chancellor has confirmed that it will rise again from
66 to 67 between April 2026 and April 2028.
See: pensions
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