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  Gill and others v Cape Contracts Ltd [1985] IRLR 499 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Damages for breach of a promise of employment

    Date:

    18 February 1986

    Guided by ordinary contractual principles, the Northern Ireland High Court in Robert McDowell Gill and ors v Cape Contractors Ltd rules that the plaintiffs, who had given up secure employment to work for a new employer, were entitled to compensation when the new employer was subsequently unable to take them on. The court found that the employer's promise gave rise to a collateral contract between the parties which was enforceable by the plaintiffs.

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  Gill v Hereford & Worcester County Council [1994] IT/07849/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Tribunal extends time limit following CRE mistake

    Date:

    1 March 1995

    A race discrimination claim presented outside the statutory time limit because of a mistake by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) could be considered, rules a Birmingham industrial tribunal (Chair: J G Haslam) in Gill v Hereford & Worcester County Council.

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  Gillespie and others v Northern Health and Social Services Board and others (No.2) [1997] IRLR 410 NICA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Amount of maternity pay was adequate

    Date:

    15 July 1997

    In Gillespie and others v Northern Health and Social Services Board and others (No.2) and Todd v Eastern Health and Social Services Board and another, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal rules that contractual maternity pay is adequate in terms of European Community equal pay law, and does not "jeopardise the purpose of maternity leave", if it is at least equivalent to statutory sickness benefit.

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  Gillespie and others v Northern Health and Social Services Board and others [1996] IRLR 214 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: No right to full pay during maternity leave

    Date:

    15 March 2001

    The principle of equal pay under Community law does not require that women should continue to receive full pay during maternity leave, holds the European Court of Justice in Gillespie and others v Northern Health and Social Services Board and others.

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  Gisda Cyf v Barratt [2010] IRLR 1073 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissal: Termination date was when dismissal letter was read

    Date:

    1 February 2011

    In Gisda Cyf v Barratt [2010] IRLR 1073 SC, the Supreme Court held that, where a dismissal is effected by letter, the effective date of termination (from which the time limit for an unfair dismissal claim begins to run) does not occur until the letter is read or until the point at which the employee has had a reasonable opportunity to read it. In doing so, the Court rejected the contention that ordinary contractual principles should apply so that the effective date of termination would be the date on which the letter is delivered.

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  Given v Scottish Power plc [1995] IT/3172/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • £35,000 for refusal to allow jobshare

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    £35,000 compensation has been awarded by a Glasgow industrial tribunal (Chair: C M Milne) in Given v Scottish Power plc to a woman who resigned after being denied her request to jobshare.

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  Glasgow City Council and others v Marshall and others [2000] IRLR 272 HL (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.

  • Equal pay: Pay disparity need not be justified in absence of sex discrimination

    Date:

    1 March 2000

    An employer is not obliged to justify a variation in pay or conditions between a woman and men employed on like work, work rated as equivalent or work of equal value if the employer has proved the absence of direct or indirect sex discrimination, holds the House of Lords in Glasgow City Council and others v Marshall and others.

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  Glendale Managed Services v Graham and others [2003] IRLR 465 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Transferee contractually obliged to pay nationally agreed public sector wage rises

    Date:

    19 September 2003

    In Glendale Managed Services v Graham and others the Court of Appeal holds that a transferee employer of a local authority undertaking was under a contractual obligation to increase an employee's pay in accordance with nationally agreed rates.

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  Glynn v Commissioner of Inland Revenue [1990] 2 WLR 633 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Glynn v Commissioner of Inland Revenue

    Date:

    31 December 1990

    In Glynn v Commissioner of Inland Revenue [1990] 2 WLR 633, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council found that school fees paid on behalf of an employee were a taxable benefit.

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  GMB v Man Truck & Bus UK Ltd [2000] IRLR 636 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Collective redundancies: Imposition of new terms constituted proposed "dismissal as redundant"

    Date:

    1 September 2000

    An employer that gave notice to terminate employees' existing contracts of employment, and offered to re-engage them on new terms, had a duty to consult employee representatives before imposing the new terms, holds the EAT in GMB v Man Truck & Bus UK Ltd.