Cases within E

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  Equal Opportunities Commission v Grays Retailing Ltd [1994] IT/32646/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • 'Lad' wanted for heavy lifting job

    Date:

    1 March 1995

    An employer who asked jobcentre staff to advertise a job as being one for a "lad" because it involved heavy lifting acted unlawfully, rules a Birmingham industrial tribunal (Chair: J G Haslam) in Equal Opportunities Commission v Grays Retailing Ltd.

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  Equal Opportunities Commission v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2007] IRLR 327 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • EC Directive not properly implemented

    Date:

    1 April 2007

    The High Court has found that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, as amended, does not give full effect to the revised EC Equal Treatment Directive, in Equal Opportunities Commission v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (12 March 2007).

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  Essa v Laing Ltd [2004] IRLR 313 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Recovering compensation for psychiatric damage

    Date:

    19 March 2004

    In Laing Ltd v Essa, the Court of Appeal holds that an employee who suffered unlawful race discrimination which caused him psychiatric injury was entitled to recover compensation for that injury provided he could establish that the discrimination caused the damage.

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  Esso Petroleum Company v (1) Jarvis and others (2) Brentvine Ltd EAT/0831/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status: Agency worker was not client company's employee

    Date:

    9 December 2002

    The EAT holds in Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v (1) Jarvis and others (2) Brentvine Ltd that an employment tribunal which expressly found that there was no contract, either written or oral, between a client company and a worker supplied to it by an employment agency, erred in law in going on to rule that the existence of factors consistent with a contract of employment subsisting, and the fact that the worker had worked continuously for the client company for nine years, made her an employee of the client company.

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  Euro Brokers Ltd v Rabey [1995] IRLR 206 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Lavish customer connection justifies "garden leave"

    Date:

    1 January 1995

    A lavish and expensive customer connection which has been developed by an employee at his employer's expense is part of the latter's goodwill, and is something which it is entitled to protect, holds the High Court in Euro Brokers Ltd v Rabey.

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  Evans v Elemeta Holdings Ltd [1982] IRLR 143 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Evans v Elemeta Holdings Ltd

    Date:

    1 April 1982

    In Evans v Elemeta Holdings Ltd [1982] IRLR 143 EAT, the EAT emphasises that whether it is reasonable to dismiss an employee for refusing to accept a change in contractual terms depends upon whether it was reasonable for the employee to decline the terms. If it was reasonable for the employee to decline those terms, then it is unreasonable for the employer to dismiss the employee for such refusal.

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  Evans v Malley Organisation Ltd t/a First Business Support [2003] IRLR 156 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Holiday pay: Holiday pay calculation based on basic pay without commission

    Date:

    9 May 2003

    In Evans v Malley Organisation Ltd t/a First Business Support the Court of Appeal holds that an employee who was paid a basic salary, plus commission which depended on contracts he won for his employer, was entitled, on termination of his employment, to accrued statutory holiday pay calculated by reference to his basic pay alone, and not his average pay including commission.

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  Eversheds Legal Services Ltd v de Belin [2011] IRLR 448 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • "Special treatment" for women in connection with pregnancy or childbirth must be proportionate

    Date:

    7 April 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that "special treatment" afforded to a woman in connection with pregnancy or childbirth under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 must constitute a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aim of compensating her for the disadvantages occasioned by pregnancy or maternity leave. 

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  Eweida v British Airways plc [2009] IRLR 78 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Religion or belief discrimination: Christian employee not permitted to wear cross over uniform did not suffer indirect discrimination

    Date:

    12 January 2009

    In Eweida v British Airways plc EAT/0123/08, the EAT held that a uniform policy that prohibited visible items of jewellery, unless worn in pursuance of a mandatory scriptural requirement, did not indirectly discriminate against a Christian employee who wished to display a cross over her uniform.

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  Eweida v British Airways Plc [2010] IRLR 322 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Religion or belief discrimination: "Solitary disadvantage" is insufficient to establish indirect religious discrimination

    Date:

    5 May 2010

    In Eweida v British Airways Plc [2010] IRLR 322 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a uniform policy that prevented the wearing of a visible item of adornment around the neck did not give rise to indirect discrimination against a Christian employee who wished to display a cross as a matter of personal preference, rather than as a mandatory religious requirement.