SCHEDULE 4Provisions relating to the transfer

Objection to transfer7

1

This Schedule does not operate to transfer the contract of employment and the rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with it of an employee who informs a dissolved body that he objects to becoming employed by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.

2

Where an employee so objects, the transfer operates so as to terminate his contract of employment with the dissolved body but he shall not be treated, for any purpose, as having been dismissed by the dissolved body.

3

Where the transfer involves or would involve a substantial change in working conditions to the material detriment of a person whose contract of employment is or would be transferred by this Schedule, the employee may treat the contract of employment as having been terminated, and the employee shall be treated for any purpose as having been dismissed by the dissolved body

4

No damages are payable as a result of a dismissal falling within this paragraph in respect of any failure to pay wages to an employee in respect of a notice period which the employee has failed to work.

5

This paragraph is without prejudice to any right of an employee arising apart from this Schedule to terminate his contract of employment without notice in acceptance of a repudiatory breach of contract by his employer