The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 3 WLR 1070
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
BRITISH FUELS LTD. Appellant and BAXENDALE and Another Respondents
WILSON and Others Appellants and ST. HELENS BOROUGH COUNCIL Respondents [On appeal from Wilson and Others v. St. Helens Borough Council]
1998 March 2;
June 22, 23, 24, 25;
Oct. 29
June 22, 23, 24, 25;
Oct. 29
Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Steyn, Lord Clyde and Lord Hutton
Employment
— Transfer of undertaking
— Protection of employees
— Transferor dismissing employees with redundancy payments
— Whether dismissals effective or contracts of employment transferred
— Whether effective where organisational reason for dismissals
— Employees accepting and working under new contracts with transferee paying less
— Whether effective variation of contracts transferred
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Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (S.I. 1981 No. 1794), reg. 5 (as amended by Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c. 19), s. 33(1)(4)), reg. 8[1]
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Council Directive (77/187/E.E.C.), arts. 3(1), 4(1)
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