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### 47AH Redundancy
> [*\[Section 47AH of Part III Inserted by No. 74 of 2005, s. 8, Applied:15 Feb 2006\]*](/view/html/inforce/2006-02-15/act-2005-074#GS8@EN)
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> > (1) Unless prescribed otherwise in an Act, award or agreement or determined otherwise by the Commission, an employee with more than one year’s employment with an employer must be given not less than 4 weeks’ notice of the employer’s intention to terminate the employee’s employment on account of redundancy or 4 weeks’ pay in lieu of such notice.
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> > (2) Unless prescribed otherwise in an Act, award or agreement or determined otherwise by the Commission, if an employee’s employment is terminated on account of redundancy, the employee is entitled to a redundancy severance payment calculated on the basis of 2 weeks’ wages for each completed year of employment with the employer, up to a maximum of 12 weeks.