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  G4S Justice Services v Anstey and others [2006] IRLR 588 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • TUPE case law update

    Date:

    2 February 2007

    This article looks at some of the important judgments in the area of the transfer of undertakings over the past year.

  • Transfer of undertaking: TUPE and the 'vanishing dismissal'

    Date:

    8 September 2006

    In G4S Justice Services (UK) Ltd v Anstey and others [2006] IRLR 588 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that employees dismissed for gross misconduct prior to a TUPE transfer, but whose appeals were subsequently upheld, were employed "immediately before" the transfer, with the result that their employment transferred.

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  Gallagher and others v Alpha Catering Services Ltd (t/a Alpha Flight Services) [2005] IRLR 102 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Working time: Periods of 'downtime' are not rest breaks

    Date:

    28 January 2005

    In Gallagher and others v Alpha Catering Services Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that, for the purposes of reg. 21(c) of the Working Time Regulations 1998, it is the worker's activities, not the activities of the employer's business, that are relevant when considering the need for continuity of service or production.

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  Gardiner v London Borough of Merton [1980] IRLR 472 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Gardiner v London Borough of Merton

    Date:

    1 December 1980

    In Gardiner v London Borough of Merton [1980] IRLR 472 CA, the Court of Appeal held that where an individual leaves the employ of one authority and joins another he or she will lose all rights of continuity of employment except for those that may be provided for under the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment etc) (Modification) Order 1999.

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  Garrett v Lidl Ltd EAT/0541/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Garrett v Lidl Ltd

    Date:

    12 January 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer complied with its duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees when it moved an employee to another location where the adjustments could be more easily made.

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  Garry v London Borough of Ealing [2001] IRLR 681 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Continued investigation of which employee was unaware was a detriment

    Date:

    17 December 2001

    The Court of Appeal holds that when an employer continued an investigation into the activities of a black female employee for longer than an ordinary investigation would have taken, for reasons connected with her ethnic origin, the employer subjected her to a "detriment" within the meaning of the Race Relations Act 1976. We review the case of Garry v London Borough of Ealing.

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  Garside and Laycock Ltd v Booth [2011] IRLR 735 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  This ruling reaffirmed another EAT decision on the reasonableness of dismissal for an employee's refusal to agree to a proposed detrimental variation in contractual terms for business reasons, Catamaran Cruisers Ltd v Williams and others [1994] IRLR 386 EAT.

  • EAT considers test for reasonableness of dismissal for refusal to take a pay cut

    Date:

    11 July 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, when considering whether or not a dismissal for refusing to take a pay cut was fair for "some other substantial reason", the employment tribunal should look at the reasonableness of the employer's decision to dismiss, not whether or not the employee was reasonable in refusing the reduction in wages. 

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  Gatehouse v Stretton Leisure Ltd [1994] IT/13370/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Grooming warning was sex bias

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    A woman who was warned that she would have to look for a new job if she didn't alter her hairstyle was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of sex, rules a Liverpool industrial tribunal (Chair: E Lloyd-Parry) in Gatehouse v Stretton Leisure Ltd.

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  Gdynia American Shipping Lines (London) Ltd v Chelminski [2004] IRLR 725 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    26 November 2004

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

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  Genower v Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Area Health Authority [1980] IRLR 297 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Genower v Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Area Health Authority

    Date:

    1 August 1980

    In Genower v Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Area Health Authority [1980] IRLR 297 EAT, the EAT held that the attempt by the respondent employers to change the appellant's job duties and place of work following a reorganisation, albeit a breach of contract which justified him in resigning and claiming that he had been dismissed within the meaning of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act, section 55(2)(c), was a dismissal for some other substantial reason and was reasonable in all the circumstances.

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  Gesamtbetriebsrat der Kuhne & Nagel AG & Co KG v Kuhne & Nagel AG & Co KG [2004] IRLR 332 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Works councils: Deemed central management obliged to obtain information

    Date:

    18 June 2004

    In Gesamtbetriebsrat der Kühne & Nagel AG & Co KG v Kühne & Nagel AG & Co KG, the ECJ holds that articles 4(1) and 11(1) of the European Works Councils Directive require that where the central management of a Community-scale group of undertakings is not located in one of the EU member states, the responsibility for providing the employees' representatives with the information essential to the opening of negotiations for the establishment of a European Works Council lies with the deemed central management.