# Employment Rights Act 1996, Section 161: Domestic servants.


(1) A person does not have any right to a redundancy payment in respect of employment as a domestic servant in a private household where the employer is the parent (or step-parent), grandparent, child (or step-child), grandchild or brother or sister (or half-brother or half-sister) of the employee.
(2) Subject to that, the provisions of this Part apply to an employee who is employed as a domestic servant in a private household as if—
(a) the household were a business, and
(b) the maintenance of the household were the carrying on of that business by the employer.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/161 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-161
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