Transco plc v O'Brien [2002] IRLR 441 CA

Contracts of employment: Failure to offer new contract breached duty of trust and confidence

Date:

21 October 2002

An employer acted in breach of the implied contractual duty of trust and confidence when it failed to offer an employee new, enhanced contractual redundancy terms given to all other permanent employees, in the genuine but mistaken belief that he was not a permanent employee, holds the Court of Appeal in Transco plc v O'Brien.