Section 149 — Employment Rights Act 1996: Counter-notices.

Counter-notices. 149 Where an employee gives to his employer notice of intention to claim but—

a the employer gives to the employee, within seven days after the service of that notice, notice in writing (referred to in this Part as a “counter-notice”) that he will contest any liability to pay to the employee a redundancy payment in pursuance of the employee’s notice, and b the employer does not withdraw the counter-notice by a subsequent notice in writing, the employee is not entitled to a redundancy payment in pursuance of his notice of intention to claim except in accordance with a decision of an employment tribunal .