Kingston upon Hull City Council v Mountain EAT/756/98

Fixed-term contracts: Redundancy waiver in fixed-term contract which succeeded open-ended contract was effective

Date:

15 July 1999

An employee's waiver of his right to a redundancy payment on the expiry of a two-year fixed-term contract he entered into immediately following a long period of open-ended employment with the same employer was effective in depriving him of entitlement to such a payment, notwithstanding the rights he had accrued under his original, ordinary contract, holds the EAT in Kingston upon Hull City Council v Mountain.