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A MULTIPLIER on a week's pay, applied once per reckonable year, and not a sum of money.", "instrument": "Employment Rights Act 1996 s.162(2)(b)" } ], "applicability": { "basis": "event_date", "note": "Applied year by year in the calculation s.162(1) directs: the period of continuous employment ending with the relevant date is reckoned BACKWARDS from its end and the appropriate amount is allowed for each year within it (s.162(1)(a)-(c)). The age is the employee's age in the year of employment being counted, so a single dismissal can draw on all three multipliers. Section 162(3) stops the reckoning at twenty years (`employment.redundancy.service_cap_years`): where twenty years have been reckoned, no account is taken of any year earlier than those twenty, so what the cap discards is the service furthest from the relevant date.", "article": "Employment Rights Act 1996 s.162(1)-(3); s.227; s.234" }, "scope_note": "ONE limb of three, published separately because the statute states them separately: s.162(2) defines \"the appropriate amount\" in three lettered paragraphs and this record is paragraph (b) alone. The other two are `employment.redundancy.age_multiplier.under_22` and `employment.redundancy.age_multiplier.41_and_over`. The week's pay each multiplier is applied to is the one Employment Rights Act 1996 s.234 defines and s.227 caps (`employment.redundancy.weekly_pay_cap`), so the money a year of employment is worth moves every April while these numbers do not. Subsections (4), (5) and (8) — the taper that cut the payment by a twelfth for each month after the employee's 64th birthday — were REPEALED on 1 October 2006 by the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1031), so no age ceiling survives; the age FLOORS in subsection (2) itself were not touched and are the bands these three records carry.", "notes": "An act carry (N1): s.162(2)(b) states the multiplier in WORDS — \"one week's pay\" — and no substring matcher derives a form of the number from them, so the locator is a hand-authored LOCATORS phrase read from the paragraph itself; the GOV.UK sentence is registered in B_EVIDENCE for the nightly. The token carries the paragraph's whole limb because the three are told apart by their AGE clause and not by the multiplier. FOUR F-notes stand on s.162 — \"S. 162(4)(5)(8) repealed (1.10.2006)\", \"S. 162(7) repealed (15.12.1999)\" and two separate substitutions of words in s. 162(6), on 1.8.1998 and 1.10.2006 — and NONE touches subsection (2), so the probe reaches ACT-HOLDS on the subsection's own untouched words without needing D-RD-1's touched-other-words relief; the ten C-notes recorded on the block modify Part 11's application, not its text. The value is a `ratio` and not a `count`: one and a half weeks' pay is not a whole number of weeks, and writing the middle limb as the float 1.0 keeps the three one scale rather than a count sitting between two fractions. effective_from is the Act's own commencement, 22 August 1996, read from the archived section's own version list: legislation.gov.uk publishes s. 162 in five point-in-time versions and the earliest DATED one is \"1996-08-22\" (, standing between \"enacted\" and \"1998-08-01\"), the Act itself having been passed on 22 May 1996 () — two months, as s. 243 provides. s. 243 itself is not archived, so the date is READ FROM THE VERSION LIST rather than quoted from the commencement section; it is the date the three ERA 1996 rows authored in wave 1 already carry.", "record_version": 3 }, "receipt": { "record_hash": "sha256:73a470ad8dc27dc5395dfcd04c221789d0257d851aedc9cb886f0c71b651e354", "record_hash_of": "the `figure` object, serialized as UTF-8 JSON with 2-space indent, ensure_ascii=false and a trailing newline", "release_version": "3.0.0", "manifest": "https://statbook.co.uk/v1/releases/3.0.0/manifest.json", "record_url": "https://statbook.co.uk/v1/figures/employment.redundancy.age_multiplier.22_to_40.json", "sources": [ { "role": "legislation", "citation": "Employment Rights Act 1996, c. 18 s. 162(2)(b) (\"one week's pay for a year of employment (not within paragraph (a)) in which he was not below the age of twenty-two\")", "uri": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/162", "retrieved": "2026-07-29T08:16:12Z", "content_hash": "sha256:02a10a969b94cf04366e8f0425d3b8d4c697bbd76dfd5e7964814b00cf8ca162" }, { "role": "guidance", "citation": "https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/redundancy-pay (\"one week’s pay for each full year you were 22 or older, but under 41\")", "uri": "https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/redundancy-pay", "retrieved": "2026-07-29T08:16:12Z", "content_hash": "sha256:6ccddcb3b0098580207823ba25cd4300ade2ee1c8cb94c7105ef3bd602415490" } ], "verified": { "guidance": "2026-09-21T10:07:35Z", "legislation": "2026-09-21T10:07:35Z" }, "last_verified": "2026-09-21T10:07:35Z" } }