FORMER employees of the Rosyth Royal Dockyard on the Firth of Forth have won their tribunal claim over the calculation of redundancy payments.
Unite the union confirmed on Tuesday that 27 of its members were part of a successful joint legal claim involving 48 workers at the dock, operated by marine infrastructure firm Babcock, who were made redundant in 2019.
Company policy provided for an additional enhancement to the redundancy pay at the rate of one day’s pay for every six months of service, but a dispute arose over the correct calculation of the amount of day’s pay.


Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed