Cases within D

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  Dickinson and Field v Mason and Mason [1993] IT/28660/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Training recommendation

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    A recommendation that staff who come into contact with job applicants be trained in the provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and that all those handling job applications and conducting interviews be trained in the avoidance of unlawful discrimination has been made by a Middlesborough industrial tribunal (Chair: J D Myers) in Dickinson and Field v Mason and Mason.

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  Dietman v London Borough of Brent [1988] IRLR 299 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disciplinary rules and procedures: Summary dismissal unlawful

    Date:

    5 May 1988

    In Dietman v London Borough of Brent the Court of Appeal upholds the High Court's ruling that a local authority acted unlawfully when it dismissed a senior social worker for gross negligence without holding a disciplinary hearing in accordance with its disciplinary procedure.

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  Dietrich v Westdeutscher Rundfunk Case C-11/99 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Display screen equipment: Directive applied to film cutter's workstations

    Date:

    15 March 2001

    In Dietrich v Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the European Court of Justice ("the ECJ") rules that, for the purposes of the EC Display Screen Equipment Directive, the term "graphic display screen" must be interpreted as including screens that display film recordings in analogue or digital form.

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  Digital Equipment Co Ltd v Clements (No.2) [1997] IRLR 140 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal remedies: All termination payments deducted before "Polkey reduction"

    Date:

    15 March 1997

    In Digital Equipment Co Ltd v Clements (No.2), the EAT holds that, in calculating the compensatory award for unfair dismissal, any termination payment the employee received from the employer should be deducted from his or her loss caused by the dismissal before reducing that net loss by the percentage chance, if any, that he or she would have been retained had the employer acted fairly.

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  Dillon v Outline Engraving Co Ltd [1994] IT/18526/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer has duty to provide complaints procedure

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    An employer has an obligation to provide an environment free of sexual harassment and a system whereby an employee can complain of behaviour which is unwanted, offensive and humiliating, says a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: J Corcoran) in Dillon v Outline Engraving Co Ltd.

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  Din v Carrington Viyella Ltd (Jersey Kapwood Ltd) [1982] IRLR 281 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Din v Carrington Viyella Ltd (Jersey Kapwood Ltd)

    Date:

    1 July 1982

    In Din v Carrington Viyella Ltd (Jersey Kapwood Ltd) [1982] IRLR 281 EAT, the EAT held that the employer's conscious motive for taking a particular course of action, whilst it may be relevant, is not the decisive factor when considering whether racial discrimination has taken place.

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  Diocese of Hallam Trustee v Connaughton [1996] IRLR 505 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Immediate successor can be comparator

    Date:

    15 September 1996

    In Diocese of Hallam Trustee v Connaughton, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal had jurisdiction to hear a woman's complaint that she was being paid less than she would have been paid if she were a man doing equal work for the same employer.

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  Diosynth Ltd v Thomson [2006] IRLR 284 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Lapsed disciplinary warning should not have been taken into account

    Date:

    19 May 2006

    In Diosynth Ltd v Thomson [2006] IRLR 284 CS, the Court of Session has made it clear that an employer is not entitled to take into account expired disciplinary warnings in making disciplinary decisions in respect of employees

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  Direct Timber Ltd v Hayward EAT/0646/05 (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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  Dirk Rüffert v Land Niedersachsen Case C-346/06 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • ECJ: Court rules that public contractors cannot be obliged to pay collectively agreed wage rates

    Date:

    13 May 2008

    In a controversial ruling issued in April 2008, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that public authorities cannot demand that companies that are awarded works contracts must pay wages to all workers (including workers posted from other countries) that are in line with rates set out in collective agreements applicable to the place of work.