In the case of a fixed term contract which expired and had not been renewed: ‘Why was not the employee’s contract renewed?’ If the answer was, in the case of a teacher, that there was no more work for him to do and the requirements of the school or college for teachers or lecturers had diminished and were expected to be diminished, there was a dismissal for redundancy. Eveleigh LJ said: ‘The fact that the failure to renew was foreseen right from the beginning in no way alters the conclusion in my view that the dismissal was attributable to the ‘redundancy situation’.
Judges:
Eveleigh LJ
Citations:
[1980] ICR 635
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Pfaffinger and Another v City of Liverpool Community College and Another EAT 4-Mar-1996
The EAT considered the status of part time lecturers of courses at colleges of higher education. They were employed on fixed term contracts for a term at a time. The court was asked whether, if a contract was not renewed, that amounted to a . .
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Employment
Updated: 08 May 2022; Ref: scu.460435