Cases within E

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  Ekpe v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2001] IRLR 605 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Putting rollers in hair and applying make-up are "normal day-to-day activities"

    Date:

    15 July 2001

    In Ekpe v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the EAT reverses an employment tribunal's decision that a woman with an impairment of her right hand, constituting a weakness of some of the muscles required for its full function, did not have a disability for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

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  Elder v Clydesdale Co-operative Society Ltd EAT/165/87 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissal: Refusal to hear grievance may amount to constructive dismissal

    Date:

    19 January 1988

    In Elder v Clydebank Co-operative Society Ltd the EAT in Scotland orders a rehearing of a constructive dismissal complaint after an industrial tribunal failed to consider whether an employers' refusal to allow an employee to appeal against a decision to transfer her to another branch amounted to constructive dismissal.

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  Elsner-Lakeberg v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen [2005] IRLR 209 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: case law update

    Date:

    3 February 2006

    We review recent significant equal pay cases and their implications. Developments of note include the application of the "single source" test to comparators within an employment unit, and a reference to the ECJ on whether use of length of service as a pay system criterion requires specific objective justification.

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  Enderby v Frenchay Health Authority and Secretary of State for Health [1993] IRLR 591 ECJ (2 reports 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.

  • Defences narrowed

    Date:

    1 November 1993

    In Enderby v Frenchay Health Authority and Secretary of State for Health (27 October 1993) EOR52A, the European Court of Justice rules that it is not sufficient for an employer to show that significant pay differences between female-dominated jobs and male-dominated jobs arose for non-discriminatory reasons.

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  Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne; BF Components Ltd v Grace [2008] IRLR 500 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Contract not rendered illegal where no misrepresentation of the facts

    Date:

    27 June 2008

    In Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne; BF Components Ltd v Grace [2008] EWCA Civ 393, the Court of Appeal held that a genuine error in the categorisation of employment status will not be enough to establish illegality where there has been no express or implied misrepresentation of the facts of the working arrangements.

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  Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne; Grace v BF Components Ltd [2007] IRLR 840 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Contract rendered illegal only where facts misrepresented

    Date:

    16 October 2007

    In Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne; Grace v BF Components Ltd EAT/0644/06, the EAT holds that the contracts of employment were not tainted by illegality because, although the parties had wrongly characterised them as contracts of self-employment, in neither case had the parties misrepresented to the authorities the facts of their relationship.

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  English v Thomas Sanderson Blinds Ltd [2009] IRLR 206 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Homophobic taunting of individual known to be heterosexual constitutes harassment on grounds of sexual orientation

    Date:

    10 February 2009

    In English v Thomas Sanderson Blinds [2008] EWCA Civ 1421 CA, the Court of Appeal held that alleged homophobic abuse towards a man who is not gay, and aware that the perpetrators did not believe him to be gay, amounts to harassment on the grounds of sexual orientation.

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  Epstein v Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead EAT/0250/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Epstein v Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

    Date:

    29 January 2008

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, in the circumstances of the case, the issue of disparate treatment did not arise when an employee was dismissed but another was not disciplined.

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  Equal Opportunities Commission v (1) Storey and Bloor (2) JES Manufacturing Co [1994] IT/58581/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • "Nimble fingers": women wanted

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    An employer who told the Employment Service that he wanted job vacancies to be filled by women "because of their nimble fingers", did not attempt to procure an unlawful act, according to a Birmingham industrial tribunal (Chair: A C Tickle) in Equal Opportunities Commission v (1) Storey and Bloor (2) JES Manufacturing Co.

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  Equal Opportunities Commission v Bull t/a Arkwrights Night Club [1994] IT/32645/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Female applicants only

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    An employer who instructed staff at a jobcentre to supply only female applicants for a vacant receptionist post acted unlawfully, holds a Leicester industrial tribunal (Chair: D R Sneath) in Equal Opportunities Commission v Bull t/a Arkwrights Night Club.