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June 1987

Britain’s redundancy payments for displaced workers

Lawrence S. Root

The Redundancy Payments Act of 1965 established the idea that an employee has property rights to his or her job based on years of company service and instituted an entitlement program for displaced workers sponsored by firms and the government.

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