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  Gogay v Hertfordshire County Council [2000] IRLR 703 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Breach of contract: Disciplinary suspension was in breach of implied term of trust and confidence

    Date:

    1 November 2000

    The suspension of a care worker in a children's home by her local authority employer, pending the outcome of an investigation into an allegation of child sexual abuse, amounted to a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence in her contract of employment, holds the Court of Appeal in Gogay v Hertfordshire County Council.

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  Goode v Marks & Spencer plc EAT/0442/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: Opinion on discretionary redundancy scheme not protected disclosure

    Date:

    28 June 2010

    In Goode v Marks & Spencer plc EAT/0442/09, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was right to find that an employee had not been dismissed because of having made a protected disclosure. There had been no qualifying or protected disclosure, but merely an opinion expressed about the employer's proposal for changes to a discretionary enhanced redundancy scheme.

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  Goodwin v Cabletel UK Ltd [1997] IRLR 665 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Goodwin v Cabletel UK Ltd

    Date:

    1 December 1997

    In Goodwin v Cabletel UK Ltd [1997] IRLR 665 EAT, the EAT held that the industrial tribunal had erred in holding that the dismissal of the appellant "designated employee" could not fall within the protection against dismissal for carrying out activities in connection with preventing or reducing risks to health and safety at work provided by the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act because it was the way in which he carried out his health and safety activities, rather than the actual doing of them, which led to his dismissal.

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  Goodwin v United Kingdom [2002] IRLR 664 ECHR (1 report relating to this case)

  • UK in breach of rights of transsexuals

    Date:

    1 August 2002

    In Goodwin v United Kingdom (11 July 2002), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that the lack of recognition in the UK of a transsexual's new gender identity for legal purposes is a breach both of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (respect for private life) and article 12 (right to marry).

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  Goodwin v Watkins [1994] IT/18964/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • "Fucking waitresses" comment not discriminatory

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    For a caterer to make a remark about "fucking waitresses" did not amount to sexual harassment, rules a Truro industrial tribunal (Chair: B E Walton) in Goodwin v Watkins.

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  Gover and others v Propertycare Ltd EAT/0458/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Reduction appropriate if 'sensible reconstruction of world' is possible

    Date:

    17 February 2006

    In Gover and others v Propertycare Ltd, the EAT holds that, in an unfair dismissal case, a Polkey reduction may be applied to the compensatory award if the employment tribunal can sensibly reconstruct the world as it would have been had the unfairness not occurred, and forms a view that the employee would have been dismissed in any case.

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  Graham v Royal Mail and Nicholson [1993] IT/28681/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Harassment policy "exemplary"

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    Royal Mail's harassment policy has created in its workforce a unique awareness of discrimination and how to avoid it, says a Birmingham industrial tribunal (Chair: A C Tickle) in Graham v Royal Mail and Nicholson.

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  Graham v South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council [2004] All ER (D) 443 (Feb) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Collectively "agreed" variation to terms not valid

    Date:

    2 July 2004

    In South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Graham, the EAT holds that a "local agreement", for the purposes of the National Joint Council for Local Government Employees' collective bargaining agreement, should be construed as meaning either an agreement by all the locally recognised trade unions, or an agreement that has been determined by a process agreed by all the recognised unions.

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  Grainger plc v Nicholson [2010] IRLR 4 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Religion or belief discrimination: Asserted belief about climate change capable of protection as "philosophical belief"

    Date:

    26 January 2010

    In Grainger plc v Nicholson [2010] IRLR 4 EAT, the EAT held that the employee can challenge his dismissal as being an act of discrimination on grounds of his asserted philosophical belief in climate change and the environment, provided that he is able to establish that his belief is genuinely held and that it satisfies certain specified limitations and criteria as to the nature of the belief.

  • Grainger plc and others v Nicholson

    Date:

    4 November 2009

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee's asserted belief that mankind is heading towards catastrophic climate change and we are under a moral duty to act to mitigate or avoid this is capable of being a philosophical belief for the purposes of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/1660).

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  Grainger v Aldi Stores Ltd [2011] ET/1100041/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Resignation or dismissal: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    24 August 2011

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases where the key issue was whether the employee resigned or was dismissed.