LABOUR AND EUROPEAN LAW REVIEW

Welcome to Thompsons’ weekly Labour and European Law

Review. Every week we bring you the latest employment law
news affecting trade unions and their members.
In this week’s issue:

SUBJECT OR OBJECT

Regulation 4 (9) of the 2006 Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of

Employment) Regulations protects employees against dismissal if the
transfer involves a “substantial change in working conditions”. In
Tapere v South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, the Employment
Appeal Tribunal said that the test as to whether the change was to the
employee’s detriment must be a subjective one. More ...
http://www.thompsons.law.co.uk/ltext/lelr-weekly-137-subject-object.htm

OF NO BENEFIT

The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations state that

members are entitled to additional benefits if they can show they are
“permanently incapable” of doing their job. In Booth v Oldham MBC,
the Court of Appeal said that it would be difficult (although not
impossible) to show permanent incapacity if the member failed to
establish that they were disabled under the 1995 Disability
Discrimination Act. More ...
http://www.thompsons.law.co.uk/ltext/lelr-weekly-137-no-benefit.htm
NEWS IN BRIEF

Employment tribunals accepted just over 151,000 claims in 2008/09, a

decrease of 20 per cent on the year before, according to the latest
figures by the Tribunal Service. More ...
http://www.thompsons.law.co.uk/ltext/lelr-weekly-137.htm
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