All items: Expiry of fixed-term contracts

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  Abrahams v Performing Rights Society [1995] IRLR 486 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Contractual entitlement to payment in lieu of notice

    Date:

    1 September 1995

    In Abrahams v The Performing Right Society Ltd, it is held that there is no duty to mitigate where an employment contract provides for termination on payment of a sum in lieu of notice.

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  Adeneler and others v Ellinikos Organismos Galaktos [2006] IRLR 716 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term employees: Successive fixed-term contracts and objective justification

    Date:

    1 December 2006

    In Adeneler and others v Ellinikos Organismos Galaktos [2006] IRLR 716 the European Court of Justice has held that the objective reasons justifying the use of successive fixed-term contracts must relate to the particular employment in question.

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  Bhatt v Chelsea & Westminster Health Care Trust and Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School [1997] IRLR 660 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term contracts: Limited "extension" of fixed term did not invalidate waiver

    Date:

    1 November 1997

    A contract of employment for a fixed term may be "extended" or "renewed" as to its term or duration leaving that same contract in place, holds the EAT in Bhatt v Chelsea & Westminster Health Care Trust and another.

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  Bowes v University of Surrey ET/2702224/2012 (1 report relating to this case)

  • University's non-renewal of tutor's fixed-term contract was fair

    Date:

    28 May 2013

    The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was not unfair for a university to decide against renewing an associate tutor's fixed-term contract because the work that he had been doing was taken over by permanent staff.

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  British Broadcasting Corporation v Kelly-Phillips [1997] IRLR 571 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term contracts: Waiver invalid because last contract was too short

    Date:

    1 October 1997

    A purported unfair dismissal waiver was invalid because the last in a series of fixed-term contracts under which an employee worked was for less than one year's duration, holds the EAT in British Broadcasting Corporation v Kelly-Phillips.

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  British Broadcasting Corporation v Kelly-Phillips [1998] IRLR 294 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term contracts: Waiver not invalidated by "extension" of fixed-term contract

    Date:

    1 May 1998

    A fixed-term contract for a duration of one year or more may be extended or renewed beyond its original expiry date by a shorter period without creating a new contract of employment, holds the Court of Appeal in British Broadcasting Corporation v Kelly-Phillips.

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  Brown and others v Knowsley Borough Council [1986] IRLR 102 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissal: Contract for a specific purpose

    Date:

    18 February 1986

    In Brown and others v Knowsley Borough Council the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's ruling that a temporary teacher employed by a local authority on an MSC funded course was engaged under a contract for a specific purpose (ie a contract to last only for so long as was necessary to fulfil its purpose).

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  Ford v Warwickshire County Council [1983] IRLR 126 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Continuity of employment: Interval between fixed-term contracts

    Date:

    8 March 1983

    One of the grounds on which an interval between two contracts of employment does not break continuity is that the employee is absent from work due to a temporary cessation of work. In a decision that will benefit many teachers and temporary workers, the House of Lords holds in Ford v Warwickshire County Council that it is not relevant that the interval was anticipated and lies between two fixed term contracts. The test in all cases is whether the gap is short In relation to the duration of the two contracts.

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  Fraser v Stolt Offshore Ltd [2003] All ER (D) 185 (Apr) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fraser v Stolt Offshore Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 2003

    In Fraser v Stolt Offshore Ltd [2003] All ER (D) 185 (Apr) EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that an employer can issue a warning to a fixed-term employee that will be valid for a longer period than the fixed-term contract. The warning will carry over into the next contract and the employee does not have to be notified of this when he accepts the next contract.

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  Housing Services Agency v Cragg [1997] IRLR 380 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term contracts: Redundancy waiver in short contract was valid

    Date:

    15 May 1997

    If an employee enters into a fixed-term contract for two years or more with a written waiver agreement attached, and that term is renewed for a further fixed period of any duration whatever, then, provided he or she enters into a fresh waiver agreement during the currency of the extended term, his or her right to claim a redundancy payment is validly excluded, holds the EAT Housing Services Agency v Cragg.