What payments are employees entitled to if their position is made redundant?

• A genuine redundancy will occur when the employer no longer needs work that was performed by an employee to be performed by anyone.
• The answer here will depend on:
  • the type of employment the employee held;
  • the terms of employee’s contract;
  • the modern award or enterprise agreement;
  • the size of the employer; and
  • how long the employee was employed with the employer.
• A full time employee within a business of more than 15 full-time staff members will be entitled to:
  • annual leave;
  • any accrued long service leave;
  • a notice of termination; and
  • severance payment if employed for more than one year.
• An employee of a business of less than 15 full time staff members is generally not entitled to severance pay on redundancy.
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