... and the employment relationships of employees who work for undertakings [FN2] or businesses that have transferred to a new employer. The intention is that such transfers should not be a reason for the dismissal of employees and that employees' contracts of employment and employment relationship should transfer unaltered to the new employer (the transferee). The Acquired Rights Directive was one of three employee protection measures that originated in the Community's Social Action programme of 1974, which had been foreshadowed in the Paris heads of government meeting in October 1972. The other measures concerned were the Collective Redundancies Directive, [FN3] which concerned the need for consultation of employees in certain redundancy situations, and the Insolvency Directive, [FN4] which gives employees some protection *578 in the event of their employer's insolvency. The justification for these measures was the need to protect employees during a period of increased merger activity which, it was ...

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