Employers left guessing about transfers and PRP

This report relates to 1 case(s)

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  MITIE Managed Services Ltd v French and others [2002] IRLR 512 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Right to share options may be varied on transfer

    Date:

    11 November 2002

    In MITIE Managed Services Ltd v French and others, the EAT holds that a contractual right to participate in an employer's profit-sharing scheme may, following a TUPE transfer, become a right to participate in a scheme of "substantial equivalence" only, if the right to continue participating in the original scheme is absurd, impossible or unjust.

  • Transfer decision could force benefits policies

    Date:

    5 November 2002

    A recent ruling means companies could be obliged to set up comparable benefit schemes when taking on TUPE staff. By Harriet Bowell of Stephenson Harwood.