T & K Home Improvements Ltd v Skilton EAT/486/98

Breach of contract: Ambiguously worded provision of contract did not exclude right to pay in lieu of notice

Date:

1 October 1999

A clause in a contract of employment providing that the employee could be dismissed with immediate effect, if he failed to achieve his performance target was ambiguous, holds the EAT in T & K Home Improvements Ltd v Skilton, and did not of itself exclude the employee's right to pay for the contractual notice period.