Retiring Pilots Crash Land

Weekly Law Reports Case Summaries

 Reported 30 June 2006 by ICLR

Transfer of Undertaking
Cross and another v British Airways plc: [2006] EWCA Civ 549
CA
11 May 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
Retiring flight staff lose fight over retirement age The "normal
retiring age" in section 109 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 was
conceptually different from a contractual retirement date, though
there was a presumption that a contractual retirement age
applicable to all or nearly all employees in a group was the
normal retiring age for the group.