Cases within A

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  Alcan Extrusions v Yates and others [1996] IRLR 327 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissal: Imposition of new terms amounted to express dismissal

    Date:

    1 August 1996

    The unilateral imposition of a continuous rolling shift pattern in place of the traditional shifts previously worked by employees in accordance with their contracts amounted to an express dismissal of those employees, who reserved their right to complain of unfair dismissal even though they worked under the new system, holds the EAT in Alcan Extrusions v Yates and others.

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  Alexander and another v Bridgen Enterprises Ltd [2006] IRLR 422 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures: Procedural unfairness and redundancy dismissals

    Date:

    3 November 2006

    In Alexander and another v Bridgen Enterprises Ltd [2006] IRLR 422 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that two employees were automatically unfairly dismissed in breach of the statutory dismissal procedure because the employer had not provided sufficient information about their selection for redundancy in advance of the dismissal meeting.

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  Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd [1995] IRLR 624 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: "Annualised hours" contract contained implied term on overtime pay

    Date:

    1 September 1995

    In Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services plc the EAT holds that a contract of employment, which provided that overtime payments would be made only when the employee had worked more than the annualised hours total of 1,824 hours in the working year, contained an implied term entitling the employee, whose employment terminated several months before the end of the working year, to overtime payments in certain circumstances.

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  Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd [1997] IRLR 17 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: No implied term in "annualised hours" contract

    Date:

    15 December 1996

    In Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd v Ali and others, the Court of Appeal considers an "annualised hours" contract, deriving from a collective agreement, under which employees were paid a standard wage for a notional 40-hour week, but overtime became payable only after 1,824 hours had been worked in a 12-month period.

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  Ali v Birmingham City Council EAT/0313/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Unambiguous resignation is nearly always effective

    Date:

    12 December 2008

    In Ali v Birmingham City Council EAT/0313/08, the EAT held that an employee's unambiguous resignation was effective and could not be unilaterally withdrawn once it had been accepted by the employer. It is only in exceptional circumstances that words of resignation should not be taken at their face value

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  Ali v Office of National Statistics [2005] IRLR 201 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    10 June 2005

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the employment tribunals, EAT and Court of Appeal.

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  Allen and others v GMB [2008] IRLR 690 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Trade union indirectly discriminated against members

    Date:

    15 September 2008

    In Allen and others v GMB [2008] IRLR 690, the Court of Appeal held that a trade union indirectly discriminated against a group of its members where its aim was to secure pay protection and future pay for employees, but its means of achieving this aim - persuading women with historic equal pay claims to settle them disadvantageously - were disproportionate.

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  Allen v Cannon Hygiene Ltd [1994] EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Objective rather than subjective test

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    Where an employee was told that a decision to transfer her was taken because she was a woman, the employers could not avoid a finding of sex discrimination by showing that the true reason for their decision was her unsatisfactory performance, rules the EAT in Allen v Cannon Hygiene Ltd.

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  Allen v National Australia Group Europe Ltd [2004] IRLR 847 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term employees: Terminable contract still fixed-term

    Date:

    26 November 2004

    In Allen v National Australia Group Europe Ltd, the EAT holds that the tribunal was wrong to decline jurisdiction to hear a claim under the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002.

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  Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC

    Date:

    1 January 1996

    In Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC, the High Court held that the employer was entitled to enforce a covenant restraining the employee from poaching staff who had been employed by the employer "in a senior capacity".