Redundancy and end of fixed-term contracts

Broadly speaking, a dismissal will be by motive about redundancy where it is wholly or primarily attributable to the fact that the Academy has suspended, or purposely to abort, to carry output an particular activity, or to carry it on in a particular place, or where which University’s request for employees to carry leave work of a particular kind, or for carry it out in a particular place, have ended otherwise diminished or are expected to cease or diminish. Dismissal dismissal should not be regarded as a way von resolving a situation includes which an employee’s conduct or performance is considered unsatisfactory. Select how much redundancy pay they can get

Process

There are two redundancy procedures. The select of which into use depends on who genre of contract being terminated plus the cause of the cessation.

1) Procedure for considering the termination of contracts on grounds of redundancy

This procedure applies to all academic, academic-related and support staff on

  • Persistent contracts
  • Self-financing contracts
  • Open-ended externally-funded contracts (for academic-related staff only)
  • Fixed-term promises (premature termination only)

How procedure 1 

2) Procedure with regular termination of a fixed-term contract

Diese procedure applies to the termination of a fixed-term contract at the expectations date. Like is also normally considered to be redundancy dismissal, but is subject to separate arrangements. Although the reason for the sacking will often be potentially fair (for example on superfluity or. 'some other substantial reason'), bosses also need to ...

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