Business Transfers and Employee Rights

Why and when do employee rights deserve protection? takeovers by acquisition of share capital; miscellaneous cases where continuity may be protected by the EP(C)A; business transfers - the scheme of statutory employment protection; defining a business transfer; the EP(C)A and business transfers; the transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) regulations 1981 - background, method of implementation, European law, areas excepted from the regulations summarised; the transfer regulations and regulation 5 - the automatic transfer of employment obligation; regulation 8 and automatically unfair dismissals; insolvency and business transfers - receivership and hiving down; business transfers and collective employment law; promises and reassurances - contracts, estoppels and representation.