Employment law cases

University College London Hospital NHS Trust v Unison [1999] IRLR 31 CA

Reports relating to this case:

  • Industrial action: Dispute about employment with future employer not a "trade dispute"

    Date:
    1 December 1998

    A dispute in relation to an employer's failure to agree with an unidentified future employer of some of its employees that both they and others subsequently employed by the new employer should be guaranteed their existing terms and conditions of employment was not a "trade dispute", holds the Court of Appeal in University College London Hospital NHS Trust v Unison.