Cases within B

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  Beat v (1) Devon County Council (2) West and East Putford Primary School EAT/0534/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    4 August 2006

    IRS Employment Review looks at decisions on procedural points that have arisen in the EAT and Court of Appeal in the time since its last procedural round-up in December 2005.

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  Beck v United Closures & Plastics plc [2000] CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Beck v United Closures & Plastics plc

    Date:

    31 December 2000

    In Beck v United Closures & Plastics plc [2000] CS, the Court of Session held that doors were not a 'workplace' within the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 but were 'work equipment' for the purposes of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992.

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  Beckmann v Dynamco Whicheloe Macfarlane Ltd [2002] IRLR 578 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Early retirement pension paid on redundancy dismissal not excluded by TUPE

    Date:

    1 August 2002

    Early retirement and enhanced benefits paid on dismissal for redundancy to employees who have reached a certain age are not "old-age, invalidity or survivors' benefits" within the meaning of article 3(4) of the EC Business Transfers Directive, even if those benefits were calculated by reference to the rules for calculating normal pension benefits, holds the European Court of Justice in Beckmann v Dynamco Whicheloe Macfarlane Ltd.

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  BECTU v City Screen Ltd (TUR1/309/2003) CAC (1 report relating to this case)

  • BECTU v City Screen Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 2003

    In BECTU v City Screen Ltd (TUR1/309/2003) CAC, the Central Arbitration Committee accepted an application from the Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union that the union should be recognised for the purposes of collective bargaining by City Screen Ltd for a defined bargaining unit.

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  Bednarz v Moving Services Group UK Ltd [2011] ET/2704115/2010 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Resignation or dismissal: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    24 August 2011

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases where the key issue was whether the employee resigned or was dismissed.

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  Bellinfantie v British Rail [1993] IT/22829/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Remark racially abusive

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    A black railway worker who was called a "black cunt" by an employee of a subcontractor during an incident was discriminated against on grounds of race, a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly) in Bellinfantie v British Rail rules.

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  Bellingham v Secession Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 62 (Jan) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Constructive dismissal: No written contract but employee entitled to full sick pay

    Date:

    21 July 2006

    In Secession Ltd t/a Freud v Bellingham EAT/0069/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that the tribunal was entitled to imply a term to the effect that an employee with no written contract had the right to be paid in full during periods of sickness absence.

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  Berwick Salmon Fisheries Co Ltd v Rutherford and others [1991] IRLR 203 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Continuous employment: Break between seasonal contracts not a "temporary cessation"

    Date:

    10 May 1991

    In Berwick Salmon Fisheries Co Ltd v Rutherford and others the EAT holds that periods fishermen spent out of work between seasonal contracts of employment could not be described as "relatively short". The breaks were not therefore "temporary cessations of work" within the statutory definition and continuity of employment was broken.

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  Bestuur van het Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds v Beune [1995] IRLR 103 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • ECJ rules on pension discrimination

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    The European Court of Justice has handed down its rulings in six cases on issues relating to sex equality and occupational pension schemes in light of the decision in Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group EOR32A.

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  Betriebsrat der Bofrost Josef H Boquoi Deutschland West GmbH & Co KG v Bofrost Josef H Boquoi Deutschland West GmbH & Co KG [2001] IRLR 403 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • European Works Council: ECJ underlines fundamental importance of employees' right to request information

    Date:

    1 May 2001

    The right of employees or their representatives to request information from their employers under the European Works Councils Directive constitutes a "necessary prerequisite" for determining whether a European-scale undertaking exists, rules the European Court of Justice in Betriebsrat der bofrost Josef H Boquoi Deutschland West GmbH & Co KG v Bofrost Josef H Boquoi Deutschland West GmbH & Co KG.