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the recent case of Millam V Print Factory (London) 1991 Ltd [2007], with the dispute over the transfer of undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (" TUPE "). The employee was of Print Factory Ltd (PF ). The holding company of PF has been incorporated in the sequence of M in the way of a share sale agreement. The employee has been informed that the identity of his employer does not change, but was later told that his employment was "continue" under the TUPE regulations.

Even the staff of the PF was said at the time of sale, unless the M's intention fully the activities of the PF into their own. After the takeover, the PAYE documents showed that M was the company that now pays the wages of workers. M for the contributory pension scheme. Even so, the companies were separate, and so were two separate companies with M-PF controlling activities.

The employee was dismissed and then complained to the Employment Tribunal.

Following the dismissal, PF bought the company from M and was the defendant to the complaint. A preliminary issue was ordered to determine whether the employee had employment through the operation of the TUPE Regulations pF to M, the time PF was by its parent company M.

The court properly concluded that it is indeed a TUPE from M. PF PF then appealed to the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( "eat"). The reasons for the appeal of PF were that the court had erred in law when he had "pierced the corporate veil" in his conclusion, which is not allowed. The EAT found that the company, as a matter of law, regardless. It was therefore clear that PF its own assets and its own employees.

The EAT decided that the lack of independence that is typical of a subsidiary that does not demonstrate that the holding company owned by the daughter and that, as a matter of law, it was the corporation that ran the business. In the absence of such a sham, the courts were entitled to look no further. The EAT decided that the appeal of success due to the fact that the effect of the court's decision was, "Pierce the Corporate Veil", which she was not entitled to do.

The employee appealed. The complaint was dismissed.

The legal structure, but they are important, not a final decision on the question within that legal structure, control of the company had been transferred in the deed. The EAT had misdirected.

A problem of "Piercing the Corporate Veil" only arose when it was found that the activity x was produced by company A, but for political reasons, tried to show that in fact the work was the responsibility of the owner of the company a.

In this case, the court can not conclude that the activity was carried out by PF, and then pierced the veil "attribute to the activity as a matter of right to M. It was found that, as a matter of fact, the activity was , with M, and not by PF. This focus on the issue of corporate structure, the EAT is not proper weight to the findings of the court.

Moreover, despite the fact that the EAT was correct that a subsidiary of the lack of independence does not demonstrate that the holding company owned by the company indicates that the observation with emphasis on the fact that the court found the regulation in this case was not typical, to the extent that the company was that of M.

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