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  Airlie and others v City of Edinburgh District Council [1996] IRLR 516 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Deductions from wages: Employer entitled to vary collectively-agreed bonus scheme

    Date:

    1 October 1996

    An employer was contractually entitled to make changes to an incentive bonus scheme without the consent of employees individually or their trade union representatives, holds the EAT in Airlie and others v City of Edinburgh District Council.

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2011] EWCA Civ 582 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability: police officer not discriminated against over threatening behaviour

    Date:

    26 May 2011

    The Court of Appeal has given short shrift to a police officer's disability discrimination claim over his police force's actions after he displayed violent tendencies at a Christmas party that led his colleagues to fear for their safety. 

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis EAT/0226/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Police force did not discriminate against officer who appeared to present danger to colleagues and public

    Date:

    15 December 2010

    In Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis EAT/0226/09, the EAT held that, in assessing whether or not a police officer who had displayed violent tendencies had been discriminated against, the employment tribunal was entitled to have regard to the need for a police officer not to appear to present a danger to colleagues or the public.

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  Ajayi and another v Aitch Care Homes (London) Ltd EAT/0464/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Workers found sleeping at work not asserting right to rest break

    Date:

    18 April 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the "refusal" or "proposed refusal" of a worker to accept his or her employer's contravention (or proposed contravention) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) must be communicated in advance to the employer. 

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  Akavan Erityisalojen Keskusliitto AEK Ry and others v Fujitsu Siemens Computers Oy [2009] IRLR 944 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: ECJ rules on consultation provisions in Collective Redundancies Directive

    Date:

    23 November 2009

    In Akavan Erityisalojen Keskusliitto AEK Ry and others v Fujitsu Siemens Computers Oy [2009] IRLR 944 ECJ, the ECJ held that an employer's duty under the Collective Redundancies Directive to consult workers' representatives about the possibility of redundancies arises when strategic decisions or changes in activities make the employer contemplate or plan for collective redundancies.

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  Akbar and Ahmed v Metro Private Hire (Keighley) Ltd [1994] IT/11064/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • CRE criticised

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    Rejecting claims that a private hire company had unlawfully discriminated against two Asian applicants, a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: J Prophet) in Akbar and Ahmed v Metro Private Hire (Keighley) Ltd, expresses concern over the way the Commission for Racial Equality went about securing evidence of discrimination.

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  Alabaster v Barclays Bank plc and Secretary of State for Social Security (No.2) [2005] IRLR 576 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: case law update

    Date:

    3 February 2006

    We review recent significant equal pay cases and their implications. Developments of note include the application of the "single source" test to comparators within an employment unit, and a reference to the ECJ on whether use of length of service as a pay system criterion requires specific objective justification.

  • Maternity leave and equal pay: Male comparator not required in maternity pay claim

    Date:

    24 June 2005

    In Alabaster v Barclays Bank plc, the Court of Appeal holds that the answer to the problem of how to enable an employee effectively to enforce her right to claim arrears of maternity pay (owed to her as a result of a failure to take into account a pay rise awarded before her maternity leave started, but after the reference period for calculating her maternity pay had ended) lay in removing the requirement in s.1(1) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 for her to point to a male comparator.

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  Alabaster v Woolwich plc and Secretary of State for Social Security [2004] IRLR 486 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: SMP must include pay rise effective after reference period

    Date:

    18 June 2004

    In Alabaster v Woolwich plc, the European Court of Justice holds that article 119 (now 141) of the EC Treaty of Rome requires that earnings-related maternity pay must reflect any pay rise awarded between the start of the reference period (upon which the level of the earnings-related maternity pay is based) and the end of the employee's maternity leave.

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  Alamo Group (Europe) Ltd v Tucker and another [2003] IRLR 266 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Transferor's liability for failure to inform and consult passes to transferee

    Date:

    15 August 2003

    In Alamo Group (Europe) Ltd v (1) Tucker (2) Twose of Tiverton Ltd, the EAT holds that where a transferor fails to comply with its duty to inform and consult upon a relevant transfer, liability for that failure passes to the transferee under reg. 5 of the TUPE Regulations.

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  Albion Automotive Ltd v Walker and others [2002] EWCA Civ 946 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Contractual entitlement to enhanced redundancy terms arose by custom and practice

    Date:

    10 January 2003

    In Albion Automotive Ltd v Walker and others, the Court of Appeal upholds an employment tribunal's decision that an employer who made enhanced redundancy payments according to an agreed policy for a number of years created a custom and practice from which the tribunal could infer that the employer and/or its successors intended to be contractually bound to make those payments.