Section 161: Domestic servants.

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

Part XI: Redundancy payments etc. — Chapter IV: General exclusions from right

A person does not have any right to a redundancy payment in respect of employment as a domestic servant in a private household where the employer is the parent (or step-parent), grandparent, child (or step-child), grandchild or brother or sister (or half-brother or half-sister) of the employee.

Subject to that, the provisions of this Part apply to an employee who is employed as a domestic servant in a private household as if—

the household were a business, and
the maintenance of the household were the carrying on of that business by the employer.

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