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  Archibald v Fife Council [2004] IRLR 651 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Extent of s.6 duty to make reasonable adjustments

    Date:

    6 August 2004

    In Archibald v Fife Council, the House of Lords holds that an employment tribunal misconstrued the scope of the employer's duty to take reasonable steps to prevent any of its arrangements from placing a disabled employee at a substantial disadvantage in comparison with people who are not disabled.

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  Argenio v The NEC Group and another [2003] All ER (D) 372 (Mar) CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 1

    Date:

    5 March 2004

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

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  Armitage, Marsden and HM Prison Service v Johnson [1997] IRLR 162 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: £21,000 award for injury to feelings upheld

    Date:

    15 April 1997

    In HM Prison Service and others v Johnson, the EAT upholds an award of £21,000 for injury to feelings made by an industrial tribunal to a black prison officer who was subjected to a prolonged campaign of racial harassment and discrimination.

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  Armstrong and others v Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospital Trust [2006] IRLR 124 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: case law update

    Date:

    2 March 2007

    This article looks at some of the significant judgments in the area of equal pay over the past year and their implications.

  • 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.

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  Arriva London South Ltd v Nicolaou EAT/0293/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Overtime refusal for not opting out of 48-hour working week not a detriment

    Date:

    30 January 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a worker who had not opted out of the 48-hour working week did not suffer detrimental treatment when his employer refused him the opportunity to work voluntary overtime on a rest day. 

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  Asamoah-Boakye v Walter Rodney Housing Association Ltd [2001] All ER (D) 320 (May) CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Compromise agreements: Failure to agree all the terms of a compromise agreement was fatal

    Date:

    1 December 2001

    The Court of Appeal holds in Asamoah-Boakye v Walter Rodney Housing Association Ltd that there was no termination by mutual agreement where the parties failed to agree on all the terms of the agreement, including the incorporation of those terms into a valid compromise agreement, with the result that it was never signed by the parties.

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  Asda Stores Ltd v Thompson and others (No.2) [2004] IRLR 598 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    26 November 2004

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

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  Ashby v Addison and another (t/a Brayton News) [2003] All ER (D) 98 (Jan) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Working time: I5-year-old "paper boy" was not entitled to paid holiday under WTR

    Date:

    4 April 2003

    In Addison & Addison (t/a Brayton News) v Ashby, the EAT holds that a 15-year-old "paper boy" is not a "worker" for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998, and so is not entitled to four weeks' paid annual leave under the Regulations.

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  Ashley v Ministry of Defence [1984] IRLR 57 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off: Relevance of agreed time off scheme

    Date:

    24 January 1984

    In assessing the reasonableness of the amount of paid time off for trade union duties under s.27(2) of the EP(C)A, the terms of a collectively agreed time off scheme ought to be taken into account, suggests the EAT in Ashley v Ministry of Defence.

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  Ashton v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary [2001] ICR 67 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ashton v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary

    Date:

    31 December 2001

    In Ashton v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary [2001] ICR 67 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an employment tribunal's decision that a male to female transsexual dismissed due to poor performance had not been discriminated against on grounds of sex, although the poor performance was linked to the side effects of medical treatment for gender reassignment. It also upheld a finding that the employee was not disabled within the meaning in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.