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. Public sector redundancy terms, in particular, are under attack by the government. For more information, see Chapter 11, pages 407-410.