On 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on its membership of the EU, with a majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the European Union (EU), also known as 'Brexit'....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, SI 2006/246 (TUPE 2006) relaxes some of the rules which would otherwise apply, to make it easier...
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...