Hynd v Armstrong & ors [2007] ScotCS CSIH_16

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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Employment: Hands for hire

Anna McCaffrey and Neil Maclean examine the relationship between TUPE and outsourcing ‘TUPE now expressly covers outsourcing arrangements and goes beyond what was required to implement the revised Directive 2001/23 EC. Thus, unusually, the protections enjoyed by employees in the UK are more extensive than those enjoyed by employees in most of the rest of …

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