Retrenchment and Labour Market Disadvantage: role of age, job tenure and casual employment

By David Peetz

Industrial tribunals have been considering redundancy benefits for older workers, workers with long job tenure and casual workers

(the latter group presently having no access to redundancy regardless of tenure). This paper details labour market disadvantage faced by these categories of retrenched workers.

(Journal of Industrial Relations; vol. 47, no. 3, September 2005; pp294-309)