Wheeler v Patel
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Year | 1987 |
| Date | 1987 |
| Court | Employment Appeal Tribunal |
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8 cases
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Whitehouse v Chas A. Blatchford & Sons Ltd
...ultimatum was to produce standard rates of pay, not to reduce the number in the workforce. Similarly the position is different to that of Wheeler where the economic reason appears to have been no more than a desire to obtain an enhanced price or the desire to achieve a sale." 20He then expr......
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Robert Graham Hynd V. David J. Armstrong And Others+messrs Bishops, Solicitors And Others
...the workforce' clearly meant that the reason must be connected with the future conduct of the business (see also Wheeler [Wheeler v Patel [1987] ICR 631]). In Whitehouse the dismissal was related to carrying on the service which the respondents had been successful in obtaining the contract ......
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Warner v Adnet Ltd
...done that, the tribunal were shut out from proceeding to a different reason for the dismissal, an economic one. 32 Mr Wignall cited Wheeler v. Patel [1987] ICR 631, another decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, where Scott J, who gave the judgment on behalf of the tribunal, reviewed t......
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Mr A Sharma and others v Travelex UK Ltd (in administration) (debarred) (“TUK”) and The Secretary of State for Business: 3314963/2020 and others
...reason entailing changes in the business must relate to the conduct of the business going forward. Thus held the EAT in Wheeler v Patel [1987] IRLR 211, [1987] ICR 631 (see also Gateway Hotels Limited v Stewart [1988] IRLR 287, EAT). If the reason for the dismissal is, in effect, motivated ......
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1 books & journal articles
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Business transfers, employers’ strategies and the impact of recent case law
...to the purchaser's demand and this was clearlyan ``economic reason''. This approach was not adopted by the English EAT in Wheeler v.Patel [1987] ICR 631, where it thought that the word ``economic'' should be given a morerestricted meaning. It was felt that an ``economic reason'' must relate......