The Industrial Cases Reports
[1998] ICR 387
[COURT OF APPEAL]
WILSON
and Others
v.
ST. HELENS BOROUGH COUNCIL
MEADE
and Another
v.
BRITISH FUELS LTD.
1997 May 8,
9,
12;
July 10
July 10
Beldam, Waite and Swinton Thomas L.JJ.
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
—
Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (S.I. 1981 No. 1794), regs. 5, 8
[1]
—
Council Directive (77/187/E.E.C.), arts. 3(1), 4(1)
[2]