Corporate Insolvency: Employment Rights

Corporate Insolvency: Employment Rights is the only book of its kind to successfully bridge the gap between the two distinct disciplines of employment and corporate insolvency law by drawing out the legal principles applicable where the different legal regimes interact.

How this book can help you in your work

Providing in-depth analysis and drawing together legislation, case law, analysis and comment Corporate Insolvency: Employment Rights focuses on the application of the rules relating to corporate insolvency and how they impact on employees.

It explains the detailed elements of this specialist field of law and practice, providing a useful base on which to answer questions that are likely to arise, for example: How is the position of employees affected by the appointment of an insolvency practitioner over their employing company? Who is liable and what priority is given to past or future claims?

Keep up to date

Coverage includes:-

• The changes to expenses and provable debts following the Supreme Court decision in Nortel
• Changes to Tupe in 2014
• Who is a “worker”: Clyde & Co v Bates van Winkelhof
• Caselaw on Tupe and dismissals, including: Crystal Palace FC Ltd v Kavanagh
• New employment tribunal fees and penalties
• Changes to preferential debts

If you work as an employment practitioner or corporate insolvency practitioner, you will find the up-to-date case law and practical analysis in Corporate Insolvency: Employment Rights an essential aid to your work.

There is a companion book, also by David Pollard, Corporate Insolvency: Pension Rights isbn 9781784514716