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Northern Ireland: maximum redundancy payment and basic award

The ceiling on a Northern Ireland redundancy payment or unfair dismissal basic award: twenty years at a capped week and a half’s pay.

£23,490.00

Derivation verified Derived Northern Ireland in force since 2026-04-06

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21

Scope: A CEILING reached only by an employee with twenty or more reckonable years all served at or after forty-one and a week's pay at or above the statutory limit; every other case is less. Northern Ireland only — the GB maximum (Maximum statutory redundancy pay) rests on a different Order with a different base and is never coupled to this one, and the two sums genuinely differ. The limbs are Northern Ireland: maximum week's pay for awards and the multipliers art 197 states; this record is only their product (D14), and the build refuses a build in which they disagree.

How it is worked out: 20 × 1.5 × Northern Ireland: maximum week's pay for awards — recomputed from its corroborated inputs on every build.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/197 (Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art 197(2)(a): “one and a half weeks' pay for a year of employment in which the employee was not below the age of forty-one”, and art 197(3): “Where twenty years of employment have been reckoned under paragraph (1), no account shall be taken … of any year of employment earlier than those twenty years” — the two multiplier limbs; the Order states no maximum sum)

retrieved 2026-09-11

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/57/made (NISR 2026/57 Schedule, row “Article 23(1) of the 1996 Order”: £749.00 -> £783.00; in operation 6 April 2026, art 1(1) — the cash limb, the limit art 23(1)(c) puts on a week's pay for a redundancy payment)

retrieved 2026-09-08

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
£23,490.00	2026-04-06	—	Derivation verified	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/197 (Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 art 197(2)(a): “one and a half weeks' pay for a year of employment in which the employee was not below the age of forty-one”, and art 197(3): “Where twenty years of employment have been reckoned under paragraph (1), no account shall be taken … of any year of employment earlier than those twenty years” — the two multiplier limbs; the Order states no maximum sum) retrieved 2026-09-11 Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/57/made (NISR 2026/57 Schedule, row “Article 23(1) of the 1996 Order”: £749.00 -> £783.00; in operation 6 April 2026, art 1(1) — the cash limb, the limit art 23(1)(c) puts on a week's pay for a redundancy payment) retrieved 2026-09-08

Receipt

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Figure ID: employment.ni_rights.max_basic_redundancy_award
Name in the API: Maximum redundancy payment and basic award (20 years x 1.5 weeks' pay, Northern Ireland)
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): derived·GBP·NI·derivation_verified
Derivation: 20 * 1.5 * employment.ni_rights.weeks_pay_cap
Record hash (canonical JSON, SHA-256): sha256:c3e7842e3109eca94928f78805ec6ae957d1643d151726305ce36b18f7a8bd41
Source snapshots (SHA-256): Legislation: sha256:369c91988025f90855283a0787c92b8151b2c79f49b2d4d2afb834f57271092e; Legislation: sha256:7842ae296f76d1b8cd7309f1461600d4640ba7b631a16be975da23669bf83eab
Listed in the signed manifest: release 3.0.0 manifest · record_hashes["employment.ni_rights.max_basic_redundancy_award"]
Machine-readable record: /v1/figures/employment.ni_rights.max_basic_redundancy_award · current only: /v1/figures/employment.ni_rights.max_basic_redundancy_award/current

Compiler's notes

Not a figure any document states, which is why it is a derivation and not a carry. No GOV.UK page states the Northern Ireland limits (guidance is on nidirect and nibusinessinfo, outside OFFICIAL_B_DOMAINS), so like every other ni_rights row this one has no guidance source; both limbs are cited as legislation instead. No matching invariant is declared on Northern Ireland: maximum week's pay for awards: FM-7 already recomputes this derivation at every build, and a declared identity saying the same thing would be the silent duplicate ADR-0012 step 4 removed elsewhere. Read from the archived current view of the Order (2026-09-08): arts 197(1) to (3) carry no F-note at all — every F-note on art 197 comes from S.R. 2006/261 and touches only paragraphs (4), (5), (6) and (8) — so the multipliers are 1996 text as enacted.