Bunting v Hertel (UK) Ltd [2001] All ER (D) 328 (Jun) EAT

Employment status and business transfers: Trustee of shares was not an "employee" as company lacked control over him

Date:

1 November 2001

In Bunting and others v Hertel (UK) Ltd, the EAT held that the sole director and controlling trustee shareholder of a company and his wife, the company secretary, could not claim the protection of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 because they were not employees of the original undertaking.