Murray v Foyle Meats Ltd [1999] UKHL 30 is a UK labour law case, concerning redundancy, specifically the interpretation of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
The employees all had flexibility clauses, and they sometimes rotated departments to the boning or loading hall, etc.
The dismissed employees claimed they were not redundant because the employer still needed workers under the same terms, just in different departments.
Lord Irvine LC held that the operatives were redundant and that "the language of the [Employment Rights Act 1996 section 139(1)(b)] is in my view simplicity itself".
A simple causation test was applied, based on the word "attributable" in the statute.