LOM Management Ltd v Sweeny [2012]

Posted In: Case Law
  • Case Reference
    UKEAT 0058_11_1105
  • Legal Body
    Employment Appeal Tribunal (UKEAT)
  • Type of Claim / Jurisdiction
    Transfer of Undertaking (TUPE)
Issues covered: Lease of Commercial Premises

A tenant's lease to run a brewery's bar was reassigned to a new tenant. The claimant, employed daughter of the tenant no longer had a job and claimed that a TUPE transfer had automatically transferred her employment from the outgoing tenant to the incoming tenant. The employment tribunal found there was a TUPE transfer and that the claimant had been automatically unfairly dismissed by the new tenant. The Employment Tribunal found that there had been an assignation of a lease of commercial premises from the Claimant‟s father (who employed her) to the Appellants but no other findings relevant for TUPE purposes. The Tribunal made no findings as to whether

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This article is correct at 08/06/2012
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