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Legislation
Employment Rights Act 1996

Crossheading Compensation

  • Section 118 General.
  • Section 119 Basic award.
  • Section 120 Basic award: minimum in certain cases.
  • Section 121 Basic award of two weeks’ pay in certain cases.
  • Section 122 Basic award: reductions.
  • Section 123 Compensatory award.
  • Section 124 Limit of compensatory award etc.
  • Section 124A Adjustments under the Employment Act 2002
  • Section 125 Unfair dismissal
  • Section 126 Acts which are both unfair dismissal and discrimination.
  • Section 127 Unfair dismissal
  • Section 127A Internal appeal procedures.
  • Section 127B Unfair dismissal
  1. Compensation
  2. Basic award: minimum in certain cases.

Section 120 | Basic award: minimum in certain cases.

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)The amount of the basic award (before any reduction under section 122) shall not be less than £9,157 where the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason)—F1F2

(a)in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, or

(b)otherwise, for the dismissal,

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

(1A)RepealedF3

(1B)RepealedF3

(1C)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.F4

(2)RepealedF5

Notes

  1. F1

    Sum in s. 120(1) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/310), art. 1(2), Sch. (with art. 4)

  2. F2

    Words in s. 120(1) substituted (1.10.1998) by S.I. 1998/1833, reg. 32(5)

  3. F3

    S. 120(1A)(1B) omitted (6.4.2011) by virtue of The Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1069), reg. 3(7) (with regs. 5-7, 9)

  4. F4

    S. 120(1C) inserted (2.3.2010) by The Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/493), reg. 12(6)

  5. F5

    S. 120(2) repealed (17.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, ss. 36(1)(a)(3), 44, Sch. 9(10); S.I. 1999/3374, art. 2(b)(c), Sch.

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