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TUPE Law: Insolvency, TUPE and managing employment risks

This ThinkHouse TUPE Club Q&A deals with our Top 10 questions on:

  • the key employment issues in Administrations and Liquidations; and
  • how TUPE applies when there is an insolvency situation.

Q1. What is the effect of insolvency on contracts of employment?

There are various types of insolvency proceedings and these are designed to achieve various different end results. The different types of insolvency also have different consequences for the entity and employees.

Administration

United Kingdom, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Gowling WLG
NCLAT settles the issue of the applicability of the Limitation Act to insolvency applications under the insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi (NCLAT) on 7 November 2017 passed a judgment in the case of M/s Speculum Plast Private Limited v. PTC Techno Private Limited, putting to rest the question of the applicability of the Limitation Act, 1963 (Limitation Act) to the corporate insolvency resolution process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). The present judgment comes in the wake of the decision of the NCLAT in Neelkanth Township and Construction Pvt. Ltd.

India, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Khaitan & Co, Bankruptcy, Supreme Court of India