Territorial Jurisdictions: Over the seas but not always far away

Hogan Lovells | Employment Law Journal | July/August 2016 #172
Jo Broadbent reviews two recent decisions focusing on whether individuals working abroad could bring a claim in the UK employment tribunal ‘If there is a sufficiently close connection between Great Britain and the employment, it can be presumed that Parliament intended protection against unfair dismissal to be available.’ Neither the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA) …

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Territorial Jurisdiction: One size doesn’t fit all

Shoosmiths LLP | Employment Law Journal | March 2015 #158
The latest decision on employing workers who live overseas shows that there are no easy answers to whether they can bring a claim in the UK employment tribunal, warns Kevin McCavish ‘In Serco, Lord Hoffman was keen to emphasise that a universal test would not work when determining the question of territorial jurisdiction and that …

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