Cases within B

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  Barry v Midland Bank plc [1997] ICR 192 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: No indirect pay discrimination in voluntary severance scheme

    Date:

    1 May 1997

    In Barry v Midland Bank plc, the EAT holds that a woman bank employee was not indirectly discriminated against on the ground of her sex when the bank calculated her severance pay by reference to her part-time salary at the time of termination, notwithstanding that she had been employed full time for the first 11 years of her 13 years' service.

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  Barry v Midland Bank plc [1999] IRLR 581 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Severance payment based on final salary not discriminatory

    Date:

    15 September 1999

    Calculating severance payments by reference to length of service and final pay, so that a part-time employee who had previously worked full time did not have her full-time service reflected in her severance payment, was not discriminatory, holds the House of Lords in Barry v Midland Bank plc.

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  Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney [1999] IRLR 246 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • References: No breach of duty of care in giving reference mentioning unproven misconduct charge

    Date:

    15 July 1999

    An employer did not act in breach of its common law duty of care in providing a reference for a former employee which stated that, when he had taken voluntary severance, he was suspended from work because of a charge of gross misconduct, but that disciplinary proceedings had lapsed automatically when his employment terminated, holds the Court of Appeal in Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney.

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  Barton v Investec Henderson Crosthwaite Securities Ltd [2003] IRLR 332 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay and sex discrimination: New guidance on burden of proof in sex discrimination claims

    Date:

    3 July 2003

    In Barton v Investec Henderson Crosthwaite Securities Ltd, the EAT holds that by the insertion of the new section 63A into the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, a "shifting" burden of proof is introduced into sex discrimination claims, making it necessary to set out fresh guidance as to the correct approach for employment tribunals to take.

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  Barton v Wandsworth Council [1995] ET/11268/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Barton v Wandsworth Council

    Date:

    31 December 1995

    In Barton v Wandsworth Council [1995] ET/11268/94, an employment tribunal ruled that an ambulance driver employed by the technical services division of a local authority was subjected to detriment when, in circumstances of danger that he reasonably believed to be serious and imminent, he took appropriate steps to protect himself or other persons from danger.

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  Bass Taverns Ltd v Burgess [1995] IRLR 596 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Trade union activities: Consent to recruit members did not bar criticism of employer

    Date:

    1 November 1995

    In Bass Taverns Ltd v Burgess, the Court of Appeal holds that a shop steward who resigned after he was demoted for making disparaging remarks about the employer to trainee managers was unfairly constructively dismissed for taking part in trade union activities at an appropriate time.

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  Bateman and others v Asda Stores Ltd [2010] IRLR 370 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Express variation provision allowed employer to impose new pay arrangements without consent

    Date:

    13 April 2010

    In Bateman and others v Asda Stores Ltd EAT/0221/09, the EAT held that the employer was entitled to change its employees' pay arrangements without their consent because it had reserved a clear contractual right to make unilateral variations to their terms and conditions of employment.

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  Baxter and others v Marks & Spencer and others [2005] All ER (D) 26 (Oct) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE case law update

    Date:

    2 February 2007

    This article looks at some of the important judgments in the area of the transfer of undertakings over the past year.

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  Bayode v The Chief Constable of Derbyshire EAT/0499/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Entries in notebooks about officer's conduct did not subject him to a detriment

    Date:

    11 August 2008

    In Bayode v The Chief Constable of Derbyshire EAT/0499/07, the EAT held that, where alleged less favourable treatment consisted of accurate written records made by colleagues in their personal notebooks about aspects of a black police officer's behaviour that were of concern to them, the employment tribunal was entitled to find on the facts that the officer had no justified sense of grievance about the making of the entries and therefore had not suffered any detriment.

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  BBC Scotland v Souster [2001] IRLR 150 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: "National origins" means more than nationality acquired at birth

    Date:

    1 February 2001

    The meaning of "national origins" in the Race Relations Act 1976 is not limited to the concept of nationality in a legal sense, and thus to the citizenship that an individual may acquire at birth, holds the Inner House, Court of Session in BBC Scotland v Souster.