Just thought that the folowing snippet from today's Times might be of interest to some of those pilots employed by UK companys but based away from their home.
The potential extension of this ruling is quite interesting-?
Britain
The Times January 31, 2006
Ruling will protect expats’ rights
By Frances Gibb
A former security officer on a remote colonial outpost in the South Atlantic has won a House of Lords test case protecting the employment rights of thousands of Britons working abroad Stephen Lawson, 53, from Barnsley, worked for six months guarding an RAF base on Ascension Island before he resigned, claiming he had been constructively dismissed because of the hours he was required to work by Serco, a British-based security company.
But his compensation claim against Serco was blocked by the courts, because all the services he provided on the island were performed abroad and therefore, it said, he was not protected by the “unfair dismissal” provisions of the 1996 Employment Rights Act.
Five Law Lords in London held yesterday that Mr Lawson’s claim should go ahead and be decided by an employment tribunal on the merits of the case. Lord Hoffmann said that, in the words of Lord Denning, the late Master of the Rolls, “a man’s base is the place where he should be regarded as ordinarily working, even though he may spend days or months working overseas”.
