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Safeway Stores plc v Burrell

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28: 103:, supermarket. The petrol station manager post would be replaced by a petrol station controller who got paid less. The work was much the same. The former job description carried some management responsibility but Mr Burrell had not in practice performed them. Mr Burrell did not apply for the new post and got redundancy. He then claimed 119:
section 139(1)(b). The right one is to ask (1) whether the employer’s need for employees had diminished and (2) whether the dismissal was caused by the diminution. So the case was remitted to be reheard. He noted that one should concentrate on the diminution of employees, not of work, referring to
182: 407: 353: 271: 162: 412: 259: 402: 124:. Furthermore, a business reorganisation is interesting factual background, but its fact does not answer the two stage question of redundancy. 38: 107:. The Tribunal held the employers had not demonstrated Mr Burrell was redundant, because the new job involved the same work as before. 320: 285: 203: 341: 95:) wanted to de-layer and reorganise its departments under its ‘Safeway 2000’ plan. Mr Burrell was a petrol station manager at the 192: 367: 155: 27: 309: 297: 128:
The contract versus function test debate is predicated on a misreading of both the statute and the cases of Nelson and
132:… the applicant/employee’s terms and conditions of employment are irrelevant to the questions raised by the statute. 148: 77: 237: 215: 248: 69: 383: 104: 115:
Peter Clark J held the Tribunal had used the wrong test for redundancy as understood from
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Court of Appeal of England and Wales
ICR 523
UK labour law
redundancy
Safeway
Morrisons
Penzance
Cornwall
unfair dismissal
ERA 1996
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ERA 1996
TULRCA 1992
Lesney Products & Co v Nolan
North Riding Garages v Butterwick
Murphy v Epsom College
Safeway Stores plc v Burrell
Murray v Foyle Meats Ltd
High Table Ltd v Horst
Hollister v National Farmers’ Union
Richmond Precision Engineering Ltd v Pearce
Catamaran Cruisers Ltd v Williams
Williams v Compair Maxam Ltd
British Aerospace plc v Green
Rolls-Royce plc v Unite the Union
ERA 1996
Thomas Wragg & Sons Ltd v Wood

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