All items: Employee's knowledge of transfer

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  Photostatic Copiers (Southern) Ltd v Okuda and Japan Office Equipment Ltd (in liquidation) [1995] IRLR 11 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: TUPE requires employee's knowledge of transfer

    Date:

    1 March 1995

    In Photostatic Copiers (Southern) Ltd v (1) Mr T Okuda and (2) Japan Office Equipment Ltd (in liquidation), the EAT holds that the automatic continuation of an employee's contract of employment under the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations does not apply unless and until the employee is given notice of the fact of the transfer and the identity of the transferee.

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  Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Cook and others EAT/582/96 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Transfer not dependent on employee's knowledge

    Date:

    1 February 1997

    There is no precondition which requires employees to have knowledge of the fact of a transfer and the identity of the transferee before their employment contracts can be transferred under the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations, holds the EAT in Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Cook and others.