Metropolitan Resources Ltd v Churchill Dulwich Ltd (in liquidation) and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 1st, 2009 in contracting out, law reports, transfer of undertakings by sally

Metropolitan Resources Ltd v Churchill Dulwich Ltd (in liquidation) and another UKEAT/286/08; [2009] WLR (D) 217

“The introduction in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 of the concept of a transfer of undertakings by ‘service provision change’ was intended to alleviate the difficulties created by the need in the 1981 Regulations to establish a transfer of a stable economic identity which retained its identity in the hands of the alleged transferee, by including in the definition of a transfer of an undertaking situations falling within reg 3(1)(b), outsourcing, in-sourcing and a change in the provision of services between contractors. The introduction of reg 3(1)(b) enabled a transfer to be established in any of the three situations if the activities previously carried out by client or contractor had ceased to be so carried out were instead carried out by the contractor or a new contractor or by the client.”

WLR Daily, 30th June 2009

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