Collison v British Broadcasting Corporation [1998] IRLR 238 EAT

Continuity of employment: No contracting out of continuity provisions via ACAS settlement

Date:

1 April 1998

In Collison v British Broadcasting Corporation, the EAT holds that an ACAS-conciliated settlement did not operate to allow the parties to contract out of continuity of employment for the purposes of claims such as unfair dismissal and redundancy pay brought under the Employment Rights Act 1996.