TUPE does not confer additional rights

Jackson v Computershare Investor Services Plc [2007] EWCA Civ 1065; SJ 9 November

The claimant’s contract was transferred under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 to the defendants. Her previous employment had no enhanced severance pay scheme, but her new employer did. When she was made redundant a year later, she claimed to be entitled to enhanced severance pay.