Redundancy

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• Date:

  1 October 1985

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Transport & General Workers' Union v Ledbury Preserves (1928) Ltd

  In Transport & General Workers' Union v Ledbury Preserves (1928) Ltd [1985] IRLR 412 EAT, the EAT held that in a potential redundancy situation there must be "sufficient meaningful" consultation before notices of dismissal are sent out.

• Date:

  31 December 1981

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Ross v Delrosa Caterers Ltd

  In Ross v Delrosa Caterers Ltd [1981] ICR 393 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that, although continuity of employment is broken where a redundancy payment has been paid to an employee and the contract of employment is renewed or the employee re-engaged under a new contract, this is the case only if the redundancy payment is a statutory redundancy payment.

• Date:

  1 March 1981

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Rowan v Machinery Installations (South Wales) Ltd

  In Rowan v Machinery Installations (South Wales) Ltd [1981] IRLR 122 EAT, the EAT held that the Industrial Tribunal had erred in finding that the appellant's period of continuous employment had been broken when his contract of employment had been terminated by the respondents and he was paid an amount calculated in accordance with the statutory redundancy payment provisions, in circumstances in which there was no liability on the respondents to make a redundancy payment.

• Date:

  1 August 1978

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  The Bakers' Union v Clarks of Hove Ltd

  In The Bakers' Union v Clarks of Hove Ltd [1978] IRLR 366 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the EAT had incorrectly set aside the finding by the Industrial Tribunal that the employers' insolvency was not a special circumstance rendering it not reasonably practicable for them to comply with the redundancy consultation provisions of the Employment Protection Act, section 99.

• Date:

  1 April 1978

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Transport & General Workers' Union v Nationwide Haulage Ltd

  In Transport & General Workers' Union v Nationwide Haulage Ltd [1978] IRLR 143 IT, the Industrial Tribunal held that the two sets of redundancies were not aggregated since there was no evidence that at the time of making the first set of redundancies there was an intention to follow them shortly with the second set.