Port Talbot Engineering Co Ltd v Passmore

Subject Matter

EMPLOYMENT — Redundancy — Continuous employment — Company yearly contracting with independent contractors to maintain company's plant — Yearly contracts held by successive contractors but employees retained by contractors for maintenance work — Employees dismissed for redundancy — Whether employees continuously employed — Redundancy Payments Act 1965, s 13 (1) — Contracts of Employment Act 1972, Sch 1, para 9 (2)

[1975] ICR 234