Sickness absence dismissals

Where an employer gives an employee a contractual right to long-term sickness absence benefits, it will generally be an implied term of the contract that he or she will not be dismissed before those benefits are exhausted. Does that mean, however, that it will also be unfair to dismiss an employee in that period and…

Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE)

It is an odd feature of TUPE Regulations that they apply when there is a transfer of a business which, immediately before the transfer, is located in the United Kingdom but does not say anything about where the business needs to be located once the transfer is complete. In theory, TUPE can apply even if…