Redundancy Payments (Appeals)

HC Deb 14 July 1972 vol 840 cc457-8W

Mr. Pardoe

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many appeals to industrial tribunals under the Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 have been dismissed because the applicant has not complied with the provisions of Section 21 of the Act in each year since the Act was passed.

Mr. Dudley Smith

I regret that figures on this basis are not obtainable without undue cost.

Mr. Pardoe

asked the Secretary of State for Employment in how many appeals to industrial tribunals under the Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 which have been dismissed because the applicant has not complied with the provisions of Section 21 of the Act his Department has offered to pay its share of the redundancy payment if the employer would waive Section 21.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Disallowance of an application by an industrial tribunal on any grounds bars payment of rebate. The action suggested, therefore, has never been open to my Department after an application has been dismissed under Section 21 by a tribunal.