The minimum basic award in certain cases where a dismissal is automatically unfair (for example where the reason for dismissal is trade union membership or carrying out activities as a health and safety representative) is currently # 5,970, but this will increase to # 6,203.
Once again the Writers Guild of America's eligibility strictures, which stipulate that a qualifying production must conform to the guild's
Minimum Basic Agreement, have rendered a number of this year's screenplay Oscar hopefuls non-factors in the organization's annual
awards race.
Under the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2018, which comes into force on 6 April 2018, the maximum
award for unfair dismissal rises to # 83,682, from # 80,541, and the
minimum amount of
basic compensation for unfair dismissal rises to # 6,203, from # 5,970.