Cases within C

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  Crossley v Faithful & Gould Holdings Ltd [2004] IRLR 377 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: No implied duty to take care for employee's economic wellbeing

    Date:

    7 May 2004

    In Crossley v Faithful & Gould Holdings Ltd the Court of Appeal holds that there is no implied contractual obligation for an employer to take reasonable care for its employees' economic wellbeing.

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  Cumberbatch v Hickson and Department of Social Security [1994] IT/3221/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Harassment "in the course of employment"

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    Racial and sexual harassment can pose questions of whether the employer should be held legally liable, as Harding v Dale Joinery Ltd Brannen v Frigoscandia (Grimsby) Ltd and Chisnall Cumberbatch v Hickson and Department of Social Security illustrate.

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  Curr v Marks & Spencer plc [2002] All ER (D) 76 (Mar) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Continuity of employment: Continuity preserved during four-year "child-break" leave

    Date:

    23 September 2002

    In Curr v Marks & Spencer plc, the EAT holds that an employee who took a four-year break from work under her employer's "child-break scheme", after which she was re-engaged, was to be regarded as continuing in employment "by arrangement" during that period when no contract of employment subsisted.

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  Curr v Marks & Spencer plc [2003] IRLR 74 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Continuity of employment: Continuity not preserved during "child-break" absence

    Date:

    7 March 2003

    In Curr v Marks & Spencer plc the Court of Appeal holds that an employee who took a four-year break from work under her employer's "child-break scheme", after which she was re-engaged, had not been absent from work in circumstances such that "by arrangement she was regarded as continuing in the employment" during that break when no contract of employment subsisted.