TUPE: Employee on indefinite sick leave not "assigned" to organised grouping of employees

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  BT Managed Services Ltd v Edwards and another [2015] IRLR 994 EAT (1 other report)

  • TUPE transfers: employee on indefinite sick leave not transferred

    Date:

    10 September 2015

    An Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee, not working in his employer's business because of health problems, but retained as an employee to receive permanent health insurance (PHI) payments, was not "assigned" to the organised grouping of employees for the purposes of a TUPE transfer.