After pointing out that the statutory definition of ‘the relevant date’ for redundancy payment purposes . . is the date of the expiry of the notice or (if there is no notice) the date on which the termination takes effect, Winn LJ said: ‘That is consistent with the whole concept that a contract of employment for the purposes of this statute is brought to an end, i.e., it is terminated, when it is so broken that no further full performance of its terms will occur.’
Judges:
Winn LJ
Citations:
[1970] 1 QB 186
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Robert Cort and Son Ltd v Charman EAT 1981
Where an employee is dismissed summarily, the effective date of termination of his employment for the purposes of employment law is the date of the summary dismissal. It makes no difference that the dismissal might have amounted to a repudiatory . .
Cited – Kirklees Metropolitan Council v Radecki CA 8-Apr-2009
The council appealed against a finding that the claimant’s case had been brought in time. There had been negotiations for a compromise agreement which had failed. The EAT had found it unclear that the employment had ended at the point asserted by . .
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Employment
Updated: 18 June 2022; Ref: scu.331991
