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  British Airways Plc v Starmer [2005] IRLR 862 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Minimum 75% full-time hours policy is indirectly discriminatory

    Date:

    14 October 2005

    In British Airways plc v Starmer, the EAT holds that the tribunal was entitled to find that a decision by the employer not to allow the employee to work part-time at 50% of her full-time hours, but only at 75%, was a "provision, criterion or practice" for the purposes of s.1(2)(b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

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  British Airways plc v Unite the Union (No.2) [2010] IRLR 809 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Court of Appeal publishes full judgment overturning British Airways strike injunction

    Date:

    24 June 2010

    The Court of Appeal has handed down its full judgment overturning an injunction preventing British Airways cabin crew from striking. 

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  British Coal Corporation v Smith and others [1996] IRLR 404 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Comparators in cross-establishment claims

    Date:

    15 July 1996

    In British Coal Corporation v Smith and others, the House of Lords holds that a woman claiming equal pay for equal work with men employed by the same employer at different establishments must show that those men, and employees in the same category as them at her own establishment, were or would be employed on broadly similar terms and conditions.

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  British Home Stores Ltd v Burchell [1978] IRLR 379 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: EAT sets out the test for a reasonable suspicion

    Date:

    7 March 1979

    The correct approach to cases of suspected misconduct in general - and suspected dishonesty in particular - was set out last year by the EAT in British Home Stores Ltd v Burchell.

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  British Road Services Ltd v Loughran [1997] IRLR 92 NICA (1 report 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.

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  Brookes and others v Borough Care Services and CLS Care Services Ltd [1998] IRLR 636 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Regulations do not apply to share transfers

    Date:

    15 January 1999

    There was no transfer to which the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations applied when an industrial and provident society took over the management of local authority care homes by, in effect, acquiring the shares of the company that ran the homes and employed the staff who worked in them, holds the EAT in Brookes and others v Borough Care Services and CLS Care Services Ltd.

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  Brown and others v Knowsley Borough Council [1986] IRLR 102 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissal: Contract for a specific purpose

    Date:

    18 February 1986

    In Brown and others v Knowsley Borough Council the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's ruling that a temporary teacher employed by a local authority on an MSC funded course was engaged under a contract for a specific purpose (ie a contract to last only for so long as was necessary to fulfil its purpose).

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  Brown v G4 Security (Cheltenham) EAT/0526/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Information and consultation: £20,000 penalty for breach of the Regulations

    Date:

    8 October 2010

    In Brown v G4 Security (Cheltenham) EAT/0526/09, the EAT imposed a penalty of £20,000 on an employer that failed to comply with its obligations under the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004. The number of affected employees has limited relevance in determining the gravity of the breach.

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  Brown v Rentokil Ltd [1998] IRLR 445 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Dismissal of pregnant woman for pregnancy-related illness is sex discrimination

    Date:

    1 August 1998

    The EC Equal Treatment Directive precludes dismissal of a female worker at any time during her pregnancy for absences owing to pregnancy-related illness, rules the European Court of Justice in Brown v Rentokil Ltd.

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  Brunel University and another v Vaseghi and another EAT/0307/06 (2 reports 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.

  • Brunel University and another v Vaseghi and another

    Date:

    23 October 2006

    In Brunel University and another v Vaseghi and another EAT/0307/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the need to get to the truth in discrimination cases can override the rule that prevents settlement discussions between parties' representatives from being admissible as evidence.