LRD guides and handbook May 2019

Law at Work 2019 - the trade union guide to employment law

Chapter 14

Employees outside Great Britain





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Employees working outside Great Britain can bring tribunal claims if their claim has a sufficiently close connection to Great Britain (Serco Ltd v Lawson; Botham v MoD, Crofts & others v Veta Ltd & others [2006] UKHL 3, Clyde & Co LLP v Bates [2012] EWCA Civ 1207).


Where a claim is for collective consultation rights, the test focuses on the closeness of the connection between Great Britain and the establishment where the workers are based (Seahorse Maritime v Nautilus International [2018] EWCA Civ 2789) — see Chapter 11.