95 Contracts of employment.E+W
(1)This section applies if rights and liabilities under a contract of employment are transferred by virtue of—
(a)section 89 F1... or
(b)a scheme under [F2section 92].
(2)Anything done by or in relation to the transferor in respect of the employee before the day on which the transfer takes effect is to be treated on and after that day as done by or in relation to the transferee.
(3)For the purposes of Part XI of the M1Employment Rights Act 1996 (redundancy payments etc) the employee is not to be regarded as having been dismissed by virtue of the transfer.
(4)For the purposes of that Act the employee’s period of employment with the transferor is to count as a period of employment with the transferee, and the change of employment is not to break the continuity of the period of employment.
(5)The preceding provisions do not prejudice any right of the employee to terminate the contract of employment if a substantial change is made to his detriment in his working conditions, but no such right arises by reason only of the change in employer effected by the transfer.
(6)For the purposes of this section—
(a)the transferor is the person from whom the rights and liabilities are transferred;
(b)the transferee is the person to whom the rights and liabilities are transferred.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 95(1)(a) omitted (1.4.2006) by virtue of National Council for Education and Training for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3238), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 71(a) (with art. 7)
F2Words in s. 95(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 14 para. 60; S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(gg)
Commencement Information
I1S. 95 wholly in force at 1.1.2001; s. 95 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 154; s. 95 in force (E.) at 1.9.2000 by S.I. 2000/2114, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III; s. 95 in force (W.) at 1.1.2001 by S.I. 2000/3230, art. 2, Sch
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