A series of surveys carried out for the Department of Employment in 1969, involving samples of redundant workers, employers and the working population, designed to gain information about the working of the Redundancy Payments Act, the redundancy policies of employers, and the personal consequences of and general attitude to redundancy. N.B. Not all the data from this study are held in the Archive. The questionnaires only are held for the sample of full-time trade union officers and the sample of former employers of workers who had received redundancy pay.