Berriman v Delabole Slate Ltd [1985] ICR 546

TUPE: An eighties vibe

Helen Cookson examines a recent Court of Appeal decision on the harmonisation of employees’ terms and conditions after a business transfer ‘The Court of Appeal has confirmed that it will not be possible to harmonise terms and conditions following a transfer if the affected employees are not subject to a restructuring, or other similar process, …

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Employment Law Reform: Beecroft Report: bonkers or blueprint for the future?

Despite the controversy surrounding Adrian Beecroft’s proposals to make it easier to sack under-performing employees, a number of his ideas may yet make it onto the statute books, report Richard Kenyon and Jennifer Platt ‘Beecroft seems to have made his comments without any supporting evidence.’ The publication of the previously leaked Beecroft Report in May …

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TUPE: Quick fix or in a fix?

Fixed-term employment can be a useful tool in an outsourcing situation but there are dangers when such contracts come up for renewal, writes Nicola Ihnatowicz ‘TUPE operates to transfer employees with their existing contractual rights, so an employee who is in the middle of a fixed-term contract will transfer with that same contract of employment.’With …

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