Latest EAT Judgments- Simpson v Endsleigh Insurance Services Ltd & Ors [2010] UKEAT 0544_09_2708 (27 August 2010)
- JP Morgan Europe Ltd v. Chweidan [2010] UKEAT 0286_09_2608 (26 August 2010)
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v. A Beck [2010] UKEAT 0141_10_2408 (24 August 2010)
- West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust v. Evans [2010] UKEAT 0398_09_1908 (19 August 2010)
- Community Dental Centres Ltd v. Sultan- Darmon [2010] UKEAT 0532_09_1208 (12 August 2010)
- St Andrews Catholic Primary School & Ors v Blundell [2010] UKEAT 0330_09_0608 (6 August 2010)
- Brownbill & Ors v St Helens & Knowsley Hospital NHS Trust [2010] UKEAT 0074_10_0608 (6 August 2010)
- Wilson Devonald Ltd v Suckling [2010] UKEAT 0131_10_0308 (3 August 2010)
- Carclo Technical Plastics Ltd v. Jeyanthikumar [2010] UKEAT 0129_10_0308 (3 August 2010)
- Parfums Givenchy Ltd v Finch [2010] UKEAT 0517_09_3007 (30 July 2010)
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Sick pay and benefits shake-up
From tomorrow – Monday 27th October – agency workers and those on fixed term contracts of less than three months will gain entitlement to statutory sick pay, something with which they’d previously had to live without. Also, income support and … Continue reading
Posted in Absence, Contracts of Employment
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Proposition 8 – banning gay marriage in California
Again, this isn’t employment related, but over time this blog might start to embrace (as it were) discrimination in all its forms. On 4th November in the US voters will go to decide whether McCain or Obama will be their … Continue reading
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Age discrimination in redundancy selection – LIFO and length of service
It has been widely assumed, and advised, that Last In, First Out (LIFO) was no longer a permissible means of selecting employees to be made redundant, as it offends against age discrimination legislation. Prior to 2006 LIFO was the only … Continue reading
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Severe disfigurements
Some of the papers carry the story today of Edward Johnson, whose nuerofibromatosis means his face is covered in small harmless tumours. He has apparently been to over 80 job interviews and been rejected, he believes on the grounds that … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination
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Flexible working turnaround?
The news has been full of this – new BERR Secretary Lord Mandelson (go on, admit you missed him) was reported to be reconsidering the government’s previous announcement in November that the right to apply for flexible working would be … Continue reading
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Tribunal Respondents’ details to be made public
Until 2001 there existed a register of Respondents to employment tribunal claims – or applications as they were known then. This practice discontinued in 2001, partly because of employers being uncomfortable that even having a claim can cause negative stigma, … Continue reading
Unpaid Tribunal Awards – A role for government enforcement?
Citizens’ Advice have released a report called Justice Denied, which claims that as many as 1 in 10 tribunal awards are never paid. The gist of the report is that: the present system of enforcement of tribunal awards, by registration … Continue reading
Extension of contractual entitlements into Additional Maternity Leave
Some changes came into force on 5th October 2008 regarding Additional Maternity Leave. The key distinction between the two has always traditionally been that the employee is entitled to all her contractual benefits during Ordinary Maternity Leave (aside from pay), … Continue reading
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On-call time – Minimum Wage & Working Time Regulations
This blog is getting a little minimum wage-centric at the moment, but there’s a recent EAT case that re-emphasises what must, by now, be well settled law. Mrs Hughes worked in a care home, which provided her with a flat … Continue reading
Delay in judgments
A civil justice review in Ontario once said: Unreasonable delay in the disposition of disputes is, indeed, ‘the enemy of justice and peace in the community’. It leads inevitably to unreasonable costs. It breeds inaccessibility. It fosters frustration, and frustrates … Continue reading