Transfer of undertakings: Transferee contractually obliged to pay nationally agreed public sector wage rises

Key Points

• Glendale Managed Services v Graham and others the Court of Appeal holds that a transferee employer of a local authority undertaking was under a contractual obligation to increase an employee's pay in accordance with nationally agreed rates.
• The employee's written particulars of employment stated that pay would "normally be in accordance with" those rates "as adopted by the authority from time to time".