Employment law cases

Brookes and others v Borough Care Services and CLS Care Services Ltd [1998] IRLR 636 EAT

Reports relating to this case:

  • Transfer of undertakings: Regulations do not apply to share transfers

    Date:
    15 January 1999

    There was no transfer to which the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations applied when an industrial and provident society took over the management of local authority care homes by, in effect, acquiring the shares of the company that ran the homes and employed the staff who worked in them, holds the EAT in Brookes and others v Borough Care Services and CLS Care Services Ltd.