Crown employees 



Crown employees (those who work for government departments and agencies, including civil servants) are entitled to most statutory rights set out in the Employment Rights Act 1996, except for redundancy and collective consultation rights, minimum notice and insolvency payments. Instead they have rights that have been negotiated through collective bargaining machinery in place across different parts of the government. The negotiated redundancy terms of all public sector workers are under sustained attack by this government. For more information on this, see Chapter 11: Redundancy at page 438.