Cases within C

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  Coloroll Pension Trustees Ltd v Russell [1994] IRLR 586 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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  Comfort v Department of Constitutional Affairs [2005] All ER (D) 96 (Aug) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    30 December 2005

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

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  Commerzbank AG v Keen [2007] IRLR 132 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discretionary bonuses: Employer properly exercised discretion in making bonus payments

    Date:

    17 April 2007

    In Commerzbank AG v Keen [2007] IRLR 132 CA the Court of Appeal held that an employer did not act in breach of the implied terms of a contract of employment in awarding to a highly paid employee lower bonuses than those recommended by his manager. Further, the terms of employment contracts are not covered by the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.

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  Commission for Healthcare Audit & Inspection v Ward EAT/0579/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Commission for Healthcare Audit & Inspection v Ward

    Date:

    29 May 2008

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, when deciding whether or not a redundant employee's refusal of an offer of suitable alternative employment is reasonable, an employment tribunal is entitled to take into account the degree of suitability of the new job.

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  Commission for Racial Equality v Nyaga [1994] IT/00681/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Motion for Asians to be replaced by "Africans"

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    A local councillor who tabled a motion calling for Asian employees in "s. 11 posts" to be replaced by "black officers of African origin" acted unlawfully, rules a London North industrial tribunal (Chair: M H Don) in Commission for Racial Equality v Nyaga.

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  Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [2006] IRLR 888 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • UK working time guidelines infringe EU law

    Date:

    1 October 2006

    On 7 September 2006, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that government guidelines accompanying the UK's Working Time Regulations are liable to render the right of workers to daily and weekly rest periods meaningless because they do not oblige employers to ensure that workers actually take the minimum rest periods.

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  Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [2007] IRLR 720 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    Date:

    20 June 2007

    In Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Case C-127/05 ECJ, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a challenge to the use of the phrase 'so far as is reasonably practicable' in UK health and safety legislation.

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  Commissioners of Inland Revenue and another v Morgan [2002] IRLR 776 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • "Institutionalised racism" comment decried

    Date:

    1 May 2002

    In Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Morgan (6 February 2002), the EAT criticises an employment tribunal for finding that there was "institutionalised" racism in the Revenue's solicitors' department.

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  Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth and others [2005] IRLR 465 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Holiday pay: No entitlement for those on more than 12 months' sick leave

    Date:

    10 June 2005

    In Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth and others, the Court of Appeal holds that workers absent through long-term sick leave who have exhausted their entitlement to sick pay are not entitled to four weeks' holiday pay when they have done no work during the leave year.

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  Commotion Ltd v Rutty [2006] IRLR 171 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Statutory grievance procedure/flexible working: Formal application for flexible working was step-one grievance

    Date:

    3 March 2006

    In Commotion Ltd v Rutty, the EAT holds that it was open to the employment tribunal to find that an employee's formal application under the right to request flexible working satisfied step one of the statutory grievance procedure where it was presented after the refusal of an informal flexible working request.