In Allonby v Accrington & Rossendale College and others, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that a lecturer employed through an agency could not claim equal pay with lecturers employed directly by the college, but she could claim entitlement to join the lecturers' statutory pension scheme even though it was open only to those with a contract of employment.
In Dudley Bower Building Services Ltd v Lowe and others, the EAT holds that whether a stable economic entity exists in any given case, for the purposes of a transfer under the TUPE Regulations, is always a question of fact and degree.
In 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.