Section 120: Basic award: minimum in certain cases.

Employment Rights Act 1996 · 1996 c. 18View on legislation.gov.uk

Part X: Unfair dismissal — Chapter II: Remedies for unfair dismissal

The amount of the basic award (before any reduction under section 122) shall not be less than £8,763 where the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason)—

in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, or
otherwise, for the dismissal,

is one of those specified in section 100(1)(a) and (b), 101A(d), 102(1) or 103.

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Where an employee is regarded as unfairly dismissed by virtue of section 104F (blacklists) (whether or not the dismissal is unfair or regarded as unfair for any other reason), the amount of the basic award of compensation (before any reduction is made under section 122) shall not be less than £5,000.

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