Cases within B

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  Burrow Down Support Services Ltd v Rossiter EAT/0592/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Burrow Down Support Services Ltd v Rossiter

    Date:

    17 July 2008

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal decision that an employee who was allowed to sleep for much of his shift, but had to deal with anything untoward that might arise, was entitled to be paid the national minimum wage for the whole shift.

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  Burton and Rhule v De Vere Hotels [1996] IRLR 596 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Employer liable for third-party harassment

    Date:

    15 November 1996

    In Burton and Rhule v De Vere Hotels, the EAT holds that an employer "subjected" its employees to unlawful race discrimination when it allowed a speaker and guests at its hotel to abuse and harass them racially, in circumstances in which it had sufficient control over the discriminatory event so as to have been able to prevent or reduce the extent of it by applying good employment practice.

  • Direct liability for harassment

    Date:

    1 November 1996

    In Burton v De Vere Hotels (18 September 1996), the EAT rules that an employer subjects an employee to the detriment of racial harassment if it causes or permits the racial harassment to occur in circumstances in which it can control whether it happens or not.

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  Byrne v Castrol (UK) Ltd EAT/429/96 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: Fair redundancy selection based on absence records

    Date:

    1 May 1997

    In deciding the fairness of a redundancy selection criterion based on employees' absence records, an industrial tribunal may consider whether the employer took account of the reasons for a particular employee's absence only as one of the factors to be considered in the circumstances of the case, and not as the conclusive factor, the EAT holds in Byrne v Castrol (UK) Ltd.

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  Byrnell v British Telecommunications plc [2004] All ER (D) 78 (Nov) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Compromise agreements: Breach of agreement claims should be brought in civil courts

    Date:

    24 December 2004

    In Byrnell v British Telecommunications plc, the EAT holds that in a case where the applicant sought to claim a repudiatory breach of a compromise agreement so as to release himself from any obligations under it, the tribunal was correct to conclude that it had no jurisdiction to entertain claims in relation to the compromise agreement, except to satisfy itself that the compromise agreement met the requirements of s.203 of the ERA 1996 in terms of form and legal advice.