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  Grant v HM Land Registry and Equality and Human Rights Commission [2011] IRLR 748 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Comments about employee's sexual orientation after he "came out" were not discrimination

    Date:

    12 July 2011

    The Court of Appeal has held that a gay employee, who had revealed his sexual orientation at his previous office, was not discriminated against at his new office when his manager mentioned his sexual orientation to, and in front of, colleagues. 

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  Green v Yorkshire Traction [2001] EWCA Civ 1925 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Green v Yorkshire Traction

    Date:

    31 December 2001

    In Green v Yorkshire Traction [2001] EWCA Civ 1925 CA, the Court of Appeal held that, although the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992, regulation 6(1) creates an absolute duty of care, the words 'maintained in an efficient state' must be given their ordinary meaning when determining whether there has been a breach of duty.

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  Greenaway Harrison Ltd v Wiles [1994] IRLR 380 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissal: Threat of termination was constructive dismissal

    Date:

    1 July 1994

    An employee who resigned when her employer threatened to terminate her contract with due notice if she refused to agree to a change in her shift pattern was constructively dismissed, rules the EAT in Greenaway Harrison Ltd v Wiles.

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  Greenwood v Whiteghyll Plastics Ltd EAT/0219/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: 'Reasonableness' requires consideration of the injustice caused to the employee

    Date:

    12 November 2007

    The EAT in Greenwood v Whiteghyll Plastics Ltd EAT/0219/07 held that, although third-party pressure can constitute "some other substantial reason" justifying dismissal, when dismissing an employee in response to complaints from a major client, the employer was not entitled to disregard the issue of injustice caused to the employee.

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  Griffiths and another v Salisbury District Council [2004] All ER (D) 104 (Feb) CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Griffiths and another v Salisbury District Council

    Date:

    31 December 2004

    In Griffiths and another v Salisbury District Council [2004] All ER (D) 104 (Feb) CA, the Court of Appeal held that the Implementation Agreement reached as part of the establishment of the new national agreement setting up the National Joint Council for Local Government Services formed part of the contracts of employment of the council's employees. The results of a regrading exercise that was carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Implementation Agreement were therefore incorporated into the employees' contracts of employment as legally binding terms.

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  Grimmer v KLM Cityhopper UK [2005] IRLR 596 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    30 December 2005

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

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  Grimshaw v Griffin Signs Ltd and others EAT/0299/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Grimshaw v Griffin Signs Ltd and others

    Date:

    21 January 2009

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal was not wrong to hold that a claim was out of time and there was no continuing act of discrimination. Nor was it wrong not to exercise its discretion to hear the claim on just and equitable grounds.

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  Grundy v British Airways plc [2008] IRLR 74 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Grundy v British Airways plc

    Date:

    13 November 2007

    The Court of Appeal has held that, in assessing whether or not there is a difference in pay that disadvantages women, there is no requirement to focus only on the advantaged group.

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  Grundy v British Airways plc and other appeals [2005] All ER (D) 94 (Aug) EAT (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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  Guthrie v Scottish Courage Ltd [2004] All ER (D) 15 (Jun) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Guthrie v Scottish Courage Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 2004

    In Guthrie v Scottish Courage Ltd [2004] All ER (D) 15 (Jun) EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a tribunal chair's decision that the employer had made an unlawful deduction from wages when it withheld company sick pay because it had reached a perverse conclusion that the employee's illness was not genuine.