Huw Thomas and Matthew Thompson of Ogier provide an employment law perspective from the jurisdictions of Jersey, Guernsey and the Cayman Islands
A global approach to HR means that clients and their advisers must come to terms with the differing approaches to employment law taken in the key offshore jurisdictions of the Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey. In terms of employment protection, all three jurisdictions draw to varying degrees from previously enacted UK legislation.
In particular, however, mechanisms used in the three jurisdictions relating to liability for unfair dismissal are derived from PartX of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (or its antecedents). UK unfair dismissal law has its roots in the Industrial Relations Act 1971. It is worth noting that this Act grew out of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations in 1968 – which was primarily concerned with collective employment rights rather than individual employment rights. The
