Safeway Stores plc v Burrell [1997] ICR 523 is a UK labour law case, concerning redundancy.

The former job description carried some management responsibility but Mr Burrell had not in practice performed them.

The Tribunal held the employers had not demonstrated Mr Burrell was redundant, because the new job involved the same work as before.

Peter Clark J held the Tribunal had used the wrong test for redundancy as understood from ERA 1996 section 139(1)(b).

Furthermore, a business reorganisation is interesting factual background, but its fact does not answer the two stage question of redundancy.