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Automatically unfair dismissal

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  • Date:
    15 June 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Transfer of undertakings: Employee's objection to transfer meant no dismissal

    An industrial tribunal was entitled to find that an employee objected to transferring to a new employer and informed his employer of that objection, holds the EAT in Hay v George Hanson (Building Contractors) Ltd.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Narrow interpretation for new safety rights

    In Baddeley v Mehta t/a Supascoop, an industrial tribunal holds that a new right to claim unfair dismissal on grounds of health and safety does not apply to an employee who had resigned.

  • Date:
    4 June 1985
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Transfer of undertakings: Changes in the workforce

    In Delabole Slate Ltd v Berriman the Court of Appeal upholds the EAT's decision that a dismissal which occurs as a consequence of a change in terms of employment following the transfer of an undertaking is not a dismissal for "an economic, technical or organisational reason entailing changes in the workforce", and so is automatically unfair under reg.8(1) of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.