Britain's redundancy payments for displaced workers, (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, June 1987

Britain's redundancy payments
for displaced workers

Lawrence S. Root
Associate professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan

The Redundancy Payments Act of 1965 established the idea that an employee has property rights to his or her job based on years of company service and instituted an entitlement program for displaced workers sponsored by firms and the government.