you: the Authority will focus on the stress and trauma that you were caused by the way in which the redundancy was carried out, and not on the effects of losing your job. Therefore any compensation cannot take into account future economic loss. Protections for vulnerable workers affected by restructuring The EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT 2000 gives you some protection when, as a result of restructuring, the work you do would be carried out by employees of a new employer or by another person. The level of protection depends on whether you work in one of several industries specified by the Act in which workers are particularly vulnerable. In those industries, you can choose to transfer to the new employer, on the same terms and conditions as you had before. Workers outside those specified industries are given a lower level of protection. Their employment agreement must include a negotiated provision setting the process and content for negotiations between the employer and any new employer in a restructuring situation as it affects the employees, and the process for determining what entitlements, if any, will be available to employees who don't transfer to the new employer. See below "Restructuring: Protection for workers outside the specified industries". What are the specified industries in which workers are given extra protections? These are industries in which restructuring is frequent and has tended to undermine terms and conditions of work, and in which workers have little bargaining power, namely: cleaning or food-catering work in any workplace laundry