Agency Worker Sacked - Who To Sue?
Cairns v Visteon UK Ltd
EAT
29 November 2006
Reported W/c 5 February 2007
Daily Law Notes Summary
The claimant, an administrative assistant, was engaged under a
contract of service by an employment agency. After a dispute over
time sheets with the company's manager her employment was
terminated by the agency. On her claim of unfair dismissal,
naming the company as respondent, an employment tribunal found
that she could not sue the end user employer, only the agency.
The claimant appealed and lost because there was no good policy
reason for extending that protection to a second employer.