As of exit day (31 January 2020) the UK is no longer an EU Member State. However, in accordance with the transitional arrangements provided in Part 4 of the October 2019...
The position of an employee on a company's insolvency The general rule is that a contract of employment is between the employer and the employee. This means that due to...
An indemnity is an agreement by one person to bear the cost of certain claims brought against another person. For example, the seller may agree to bear the buyer's costs...
What is an employee benefit trust scheme? An employee benefit trust (EBT) is used by many companies as a type of tax avoidance scheme, by which a company pays...
For the purposes of entitlement to a redundancy payment, an employee is dismissed by reason of redundancy if the reason for dismissal is: • the employer ceases carrying...
An employee may apply to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to pay the statutory redundancy payment out of the state guarantee fund (the...
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This Practice Note considers how the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, SI 2006/246 (TUPE 2006) is relaxed in...
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, SI 2006/246 (TUPE 2006) provides additional protection to the employee where a dismissal occurs...
Where there is a relevant transfer, subject to an employee's right to object to the transfer (see: Employee right to object to the transfer below), the contracts of...
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, SI 2006/246 (TUPE 2006) provide that, where there is a relevant transfer, there is a statutory...
This Practice Note details the effect of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, SI 2006/246 (TUPE 2006) on the ability to vary or...