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Coronavirus job retention scheme: Furloughed employees and frustration of contracts
Howard Hymanson considers whether employers could successfully argue that Covid-19 has frustrated their contracts with employees and what the position is when they have put staff on furlough leave ‘The coronavirus and its impact on society and the economy is an extraneous change of situation which is taking place without employers or employees being to …
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- British Airports Authority v Fenerty [1976] ICR 361
- Edwinton Commercial Corp v Tsavliris Russ (Worldwide Salvage & Towage) Ltd (The Sea Angel) [2007] EWCA Civ 547
- Gryf-Lowczowski v Hichinbrooke [2006] ICR 425
- J Lauritzen AS v Wijsmuller BV (The Super Servant Two) [1990] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 1
- Manpower UK Ltd v Mulford [2003] UKEAT 0148/03/MAA
- Marshall v Harland and Wolff Ltd [1972] IRLR 90
- Stanley Wattam Ltd v Rippin [1998] UKEAT 355/98/0110