The Employment Rights Bill marks a significant shift in the UK’s industrial action regime, repealing Minimum Service Levels and key 2016 trade union restrictions while modestly simplifying balloting, notice rules and protections for workers taking action.
The EAT’s decision in Morton’s Rolls clarifies when a TUPE transfer occurs in an insolvency context, how Regulation 8(7) can switch off automatic transfer, and what this means for workers’ entitlement to National Insurance Fund payments.