{
  "table": "severance-pay-calculator-rules",
  "schema": 1,
  "version": "2026-11-11.2",
  "title": "Severance pay rules: France (indemnité légale de licenciement) and United Kingdom (statutory redundancy pay)",
  "doc": "Rule table read by the severance-pay-calculator handler (ctx.data['severance-pay-calculator-rules']). France: the legal minimum dismissal indemnity of the Code du travail (L1234-9, R1234-1, R1234-2, R1234-4, L3123-5) and its use as the floor of the rupture conventionnelle indemnity. United Kingdom: statutory redundancy pay (Employment Rights Act 1996, sections 155 and 162, for England, Scotland and Wales; Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, articles 190 and 197, for Northern Ireland) with the cap on a week's pay set each year by a limits order. Fractions are {num, den}. Every block carries its legal basis, its official source (source_url), the source's own date (source_date), the date it was read (retrieved), and valid_from / valid_until (null valid_until: in force until changed). Table-level valid_from / valid_until bound the period during which this version may be relied on; it must be checked again before valid_until, because the United Kingdom's limits orders usually take effect on 6 April. week_pay_caps are chosen by the relevant date (the date the job ends); next_order_expected is the first date for which a newer limits order may apply, and the handler warns from that date.",
  "reviewed_on": "2026-11-11",
  "reviewed_by": "apps-calculators agent (automated research against official sources, every value read at its source on 2026-11-11); owner review pending",
  "valid_from": "2026-11-11",
  "valid_until": "2027-04-05",
  "locale_country": {
    "fr-FR": "FR",
    "en-GB": "GB"
  },
  "countries": {
    "FR": {
      "currency": "EUR",
      "scope": {
        "fr-FR": "Salariés en CDI du secteur privé soumis au code du travail français. Indemnité légale minimale, avant tout montant plus favorable prévu par la convention collective, le contrat ou un usage. La Nouvelle-Calédonie, la Polynésie française et Wallis-et-Futuna ont leur propre droit du travail.",
        "en-GB": "Private-sector employees on a permanent contract (CDI) under the French Code du travail. The legal minimum, before any more generous amount set by a collective agreement, the contract or custom. New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna have their own labour law."
      },
      "min_seniority_months": {
        "value": 8,
        "applies_to": "dismissal",
        "rule": "At least 8 months of uninterrupted service with the same employer, assessed on the date the dismissal letter is sent; no legal indemnity for serious (faute grave) or gross (faute lourde) misconduct.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L1234-9",
        "valid_from": "2017-09-24",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F987",
        "source_date": "2026-06-05",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000035644154/"
        ]
      },
      "mutual_termination": {
        "min_seniority_months": 0,
        "rule": "The rupture conventionnelle indemnity is due whatever the seniority (F19030) and cannot be lower than the legal dismissal indemnity (L1237-13, F31539); below one year it is worked out with the same formula, pro rata of the complete months.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L1237-13",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F19030",
        "source_date": "2026-06-26",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F31539"
        ]
      },
      "occupational_unfitness": {
        "rule": "Dismissal for unfitness following a work accident or an occupational disease: a special indemnity of at least twice the legal indemnity, without any seniority condition. Not computed by the handler, which says so on every dismissal.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L1226-14",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F31225",
        "source_date": "2025-08-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "bands": {
        "threshold_months": 120,
        "up_to_threshold": {
          "num": 1,
          "den": 4
        },
        "from_threshold": {
          "num": 1,
          "den": 3
        },
        "months_per_year": 12,
        "rule": "A quarter of a month's salary per year of service for the years up to ten, a third of a month's salary per year from ten; an incomplete year counts in proportion to its complete months.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. R1234-1 et R1234-2 (décret n° 2017-1398 du 25 septembre 2017)",
        "valid_from": "2017-09-27",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000035644687/",
        "source_date": "2017-09-27",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F987"
        ]
      },
      "reference_salary": {
        "average_months_long": 12,
        "average_months_short": 3,
        "rule": "The more favourable of the monthly average of the last 12 months before the dismissal (of all months when service is under 12 months) and one third of the last 3 months, annual or exceptional bonuses counted pro rata.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. R1234-4",
        "valid_from": "2017-09-27",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000035644687/",
        "source_date": "2017-09-27",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "part_time": {
        "rule": "For an employee who worked both full time and part time for the same employer, the indemnity is calculated in proportion to the periods worked under each arrangement.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3123-5",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F987",
        "source_date": "2026-06-05",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000033020084/"
        ]
      }
    },
    "GB": {
      "currency": "GBP",
      "scope": {
        "fr-FR": "Salariés (employees) au Royaume-Uni : Angleterre, Écosse et pays de Galles d’une part, Irlande du Nord d’autre part, avec des plafonds différents.",
        "en-GB": "Employees in the United Kingdom: England, Scotland and Wales on one side and Northern Ireland on the other, with different caps."
      },
      "qualifying_years": {
        "value": 2,
        "rule": "No statutory redundancy pay without at least two years of continuous employment ending with the relevant date.",
        "legal_basis": "Employment Rights Act 1996, s. 155; Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, art. 190",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/155",
        "source_date": "2026-11-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/190",
          "https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/redundancy-pay"
        ]
      },
      "max_years": {
        "value": 20,
        "rule": "Years are reckoned backwards from the relevant date; no year earlier than the last twenty counts.",
        "legal_basis": "Employment Rights Act 1996, s. 162(1) and (3); Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, art. 197(1) and (3)",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/162",
        "source_date": "2026-11-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/197"
        ]
      },
      "age_bands": {
        "rule": "For each year of employment: one and a half weeks' pay if the employee was not below 41 in that year, one week's pay if not below 22, half a week's pay otherwise. A year counts at a higher rate only if the employee was at least that age for the whole year, so with age A on the relevant date the k-th year counted back is rated on age A − k (GOV.UK's calculator gives the same).",
        "bands": [
          {
            "min_age": 41,
            "weeks": {
              "num": 3,
              "den": 2
            }
          },
          {
            "min_age": 22,
            "weeks": {
              "num": 1,
              "den": 1
            }
          },
          {
            "min_age": 0,
            "weeks": {
              "num": 1,
              "den": 2
            }
          }
        ],
        "legal_basis": "Employment Rights Act 1996, s. 162(2); Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, art. 197(2)",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/162",
        "source_date": "2026-11-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
        "see_also": [
          "https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/redundancy-pay",
          "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-redundancy-pay"
        ]
      },
      "input_limits": {
        "min_age": 16,
        "max_age": 100,
        "earliest_start_age": 15,
        "rule": "The ages GOV.UK's calculator accepts (16 to 100), and its check that the years of service are no more than the age less 15.",
        "legal_basis": "GOV.UK calculator validation, not a statutory rule",
        "valid_from": null,
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-redundancy-pay",
        "source_date": "2026-11-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "week_pay_caps": {
        "gb": [
          {
            "value": 719,
            "valid_from": "2025-04-06",
            "valid_until": "2026-04-05",
            "legal_basis": "The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025 (SI 2025/348), Schedule: Employment Rights Act 1996, s. 227(1)",
            "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/348/made",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "value": 751,
            "valid_from": "2026-04-06",
            "valid_until": null,
            "legal_basis": "The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2026 (SI 2026/310), Schedule: Employment Rights Act 1996, s. 227(1)",
            "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/310/made",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
            "see_also": [
              "https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/redundancy-pay"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "ni": [
          {
            "value": 749,
            "valid_from": "2025-04-06",
            "valid_until": "2026-04-05",
            "legal_basis": "The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 (SR 2025/63), Schedule: Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, art. 23(1)",
            "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/63/made",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "value": 783,
            "valid_from": "2026-04-06",
            "valid_until": null,
            "legal_basis": "The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 (SR 2026/57), Schedule: Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, art. 23(1)",
            "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/57/made",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          }
        ],
        "next_order_expected": "2027-04-06",
        "rule": "The cap is the one in force on the relevant date. Orders since 2025 take effect on 6 April; none for 2027 had been made on 2026-11-11, so from 2027-04-06 the latest cap is used with a warning."
      }
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Indemnité de licenciement du salarié en CDI (F987)",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F987",
      "date": "2026-06-05"
    },
    {
      "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Comment calculer l'indemnité spécifique de rupture conventionnelle ? (F31539)",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F31539",
      "date": "2026-06-26"
    },
    {
      "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: La rupture conventionnelle d'un CDI (F19030)",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F19030",
      "date": "2026-06-26"
    },
    {
      "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Le salarié perçoit-il des indemnités en cas de licenciement pour inaptitude physique ? (F31225)",
      "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F31225",
      "date": "2025-08-11"
    },
    {
      "label": "Légifrance: Code du travail, art. R1234-1 to R1234-5",
      "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000035644687/",
      "date": "2017-09-27"
    },
    {
      "label": "Légifrance: Code du travail, art. L1234-9 to L1234-11",
      "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000035644154/",
      "date": "2017-09-24"
    },
    {
      "label": "legislation.gov.uk: Employment Rights Act 1996, section 162",
      "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/162",
      "date": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "label": "legislation.gov.uk: The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2026",
      "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/310/made",
      "date": "2026-03-16"
    },
    {
      "label": "legislation.gov.uk: The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026",
      "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/57/made",
      "date": "2026-03-19"
    },
    {
      "label": "GOV.UK: Redundancy: your rights, statutory redundancy pay",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/redundancy-pay",
      "date": "2026-11-11"
    },
    {
      "label": "GOV.UK: Calculate your statutory redundancy pay",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-redundancy-pay",
      "date": "2026-11-11"
    }
  ]
}