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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 6 April 1979 - onwards
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15. Disentitlement to redundancy payment for refusal to accept alternative employment.

(1) An employee shall not be entitled to a redundancy payment if -

(a) his employer has offered to renew that employee's contract of employment or to re-engage him under a new contract of employment,

(b) the provisions of the contract as renewed, or of the new contract, as to the capacity and place in which he would be employed and as to the other terms and conditions of his employment would not differ from the corresponding provisions of the contract in force immediately before the termination of his contract,

(c) the renewal or re-engagement would take effect on or before the date of the termination of his contract , and

(d) he has unreasonably refused the offer.

(2) An employee shall not be entitled to a redundancy payment if -

(a) his employer has made to him in writing an offer to renew the employee's contract of employment or to re-engage him under a new contract of employment,