Cases within B

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  Beveridge v KLM UK Ltd [2000] IRLR 765 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Beveridge v KLM UK Ltd

    Date:

    1 November 2000

    In Beveridge v KLM UK Ltd [2000] IRLR 765 EAT, the EAT held that when an employee is fit and willing to work, the employer is obliged to pay the employee his or her normal wages or salary unless there is an express term in the contract of employment authorising the employer to withhold pay in certain defined circumstances.

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  Bhatti and another v Pontiac Coils Europe Ltd [2007] ET/2600837/07 & ET/2600824/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest: Religion or belief discrimination

    Date:

    1 April 2008

    Sue Johnstone, editor of Equal Opportunities Review, provides a round-up of some of the remedies that employment tribunals have awarded in religion or belief discrimination cases.

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  Bilka-Kaufhaus GmbH v Weber von Hartz [1986] IRLR 317 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bilka-Kaufhaus GmbH v Weber von Hartz

    Date:

    1 August 1986

    In Bilka-Kaufhaus GmbH v Weber von Hartz [1986] IRLR 317 ECJ, the European Court of Justice held that the exclusion of part-time workers from occupational pension schemes contravenes Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome if this exclusion affects significantly more women than men, unless the employer can show that the exclusion is based on objectively justified factors unrelated to any discrimination on grounds of sex.

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  Birch and Humber v The University of Liverpool [1985] IRLR 165 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissal: Termination by mutual agreement

    Date:

    19 March 1985

    In Birch and Humber v University of Liverpool the Court of Appeal upholds a tribunal's finding that the termination of employment which resulted from the employees' offer to retire early and the employer's acceptance of that offer was not a dismissal but a termination by mutual agreement; so, there having been no dismissal, the employees were not entitled to a redundancy payment.

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  Birmingham City Council v Beck and others EAT/0037/43/10, EAT0045/48/10 & EAT0053/59/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: "same source" of terms and conditions

    Date:

    16 May 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered the circumstances in which the terms and conditions of employees derive from the "same source" as their comparators for the purposes of the Equal Pay Act 1970. 

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  Birmingham City Council v Wetherill and others [2007] IRLR 781 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Variation of contract terms: The variation of a car allowance scheme should have been accompanied by transitional protection

    Date:

    4 September 2007

    In Wetherill & Ors v Birmingham City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 599 the Court of Appeal held that a local authority was entitled to vary a car allowance scheme unilaterally, but was in breach of contract by failing to provide adequate transitional protection for affected employees.

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  Bishop v The Cooper Group plc [1994] IT/60910/92 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Successful boys would "fit in"

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    In Bishop v The Cooper Group plc a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly), hearing "alarm bells" when told that the successful male candidates for apprenticeships in a wholly male environment would "fit in", rules that a teenage girl was turned down because of her sex.

  • Girl trainee mechanic awarded over £24,000

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    A teenage girl who was turned down for an apprenticeship as a garage mechanic is awarded compensation of £24,389, including £3,500 for injury to feelings, by a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly) in Bishop v The Cooper Group plc.

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  Bivonas LLP and other v Bennett EAT/0254/11 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Homophobic comments discovered in archived case file were discriminatory

    Date:

    21 August 2012

    In Bivonas LLP and other v Bennett EAT/0254/11, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was entitled to find that “offensive and insulting” homophobic comments in a written memorandum plainly constituted a detriment to the gay lawyer who was the subject of the comments.

  • Gay lawyer who discovered homophobic comment in case file was discriminated against

    Date:

    6 February 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employment tribunal was entitled to find that a gay barrister was discriminated against when he discovered a memorandum that made derogatory comments about his sexual orientation. 

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  Blackburn and another v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [2009] IRLR 135 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Blackburn and another v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police

    Date:

    12 November 2008

    The Court of Appeal has held that paying bonuses to employees who worked night shifts did not constitute sex discrimination.

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  Blockbuster Entertainment Ltd v James [2006] IRLR 630 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure round-up

    Date:

    16 February 2007

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