Section 153

Where the reason or principal reason for the dismissal of an employee was that he was redundant, but it is shown— the dismissal shall be regarded as unfair for the purposes of Part X of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (unfair dismissal). that the circumstances constituting the redundancy applied equally to one or more other employees in the same undertaking who held positions similar to that held by him and who have not been dismissed by the employer, and that the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) why he was selected for dismissal was one of those specified in section 152(1),

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04