What is redundancy?

Redundancy is when an employer no longer needs to have a job performed by anyone — in other words, that the job the employee was doing has ceased to exist.

An employee whose job has been made redundant and whose employment is terminated may have an entitlement under statute, an industrial instrument or contract to redundancy or severance pay.

Redundancy pay is in addition to any payment in lieu of notice which the employee may also be entitled to receive on termination of their employment and payments for unused accrued paid leave entitlements.

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