Cases within H

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  Her Majesty's Commissioners for Revenue & Customs v Rinaldi-Tranter EAT/0486/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Her Majesty's Commissioners for Revenue & Customs v Rinaldi-Tranter

    Date:

    27 November 2007

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a trainee in the second year of a learning agreement was entitled to the national minimum wage.

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  Hewlett Packard Ltd v O’Murphy [2002] IRLR 4 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status: Computer specialist not an employee as no contract of any kind existed between the parties

    Date:

    15 December 2001

    In Hewlett Packard Ltd v O'Murphy, the EAT holds that a computer specialist was not an employee of the company to which he provided his services - Hewlett Packard - as there was no contractual relationship of any kind between them.

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  Hibbins v Hesters Way Neighbourhood Project [2009] IRLR 198 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Public interest disclosures: Whistleblowing provisions protect disclosure of third-party wrongdoing

    Date:

    23 January 2009

    In Hibbins v Hesters Way Neighbourhood Project EAT/0275/08, the EAT held that a teacher's disclosure that a prospective student was a suspect in a criminal case was capable of being a protected disclosure for the purposes of the whistleblowing legislation.

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  High Table Ltd v Horst and others [1997] IRLR 513 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: Factual test for determining place of employment approved

    Date:

    1 October 1997

    The question of where an employee was employed for the purposes of the statutory definition of redundancy is to be answered primarily by a consideration of the factual circumstances which obtained until the dismissal, holds the Court of Appeal in High Table Ltd v Horst and others.

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  Highfield Gears Ltd v James EAT/702/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal remedies: EAT addresses limits of "Polkey" reductions

    Date:

    1 January 1995

    In a number of recent cases, the EAT has considered the approach industrial tribunals should take when considering reducing unfair dismissal compensation on the grounds that the unfairness was due only to "procedural" failures.

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  Hill v Chapell [2003] IRLR 19 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Holiday pay: Employer could not recover "excess" holiday pay

    Date:

    4 April 2003

    In Hill v Chapell, the EAT holds that there was no "overpayment" of holiday pay or of wages in circumstances where an employee was entitled, under the Working Time Regulations 1998, to 20 days' paid holiday per annum, and had taken 15 days' paid holiday by agreement with her employer during her six months of employment.

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  Hill v General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation plc [1998] IRLR 641 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Employer was entitled to make long-term sick employee redundant

    Date:

    15 January 1999

    In Hill v General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc, the Outer House of the Court of Session holds that there was no breach of the implied duty of mutual trust and confidence when an employer made an employee redundant while he was in receipt of contractual sick pay and had a prospective contractual entitlement to long-term sickness benefit.

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  Hilton UK Hotels Ltd v McNaughton EAT/0059/04 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Compromise agreements: Compromise agreement fails to prevent equal pay claim

    Date:

    3 February 2006

    In Hilton UK Hotels Ltd v McNaughton, the EAT holds that the employment tribunal was correct to find that a compromise agreement did not prevent an employee who was excluded from the employer's pension scheme during a period of part-time employment from advancing an equal pay claim.

  • Hilton UK Hotels Ltd v McNaughton

    Date:

    28 November 2005

    In Hilton UK Hotels Ltd v McNaughton EAT/0059/04, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that, where a compromise agreement included the qualification that settled claims would extend only to those that the employee 'believed' that she had at the date of her signature on the agreement, this did not preclude a future claim of which she was unaware at this time.

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  Hilton v Shiner Ltd Builders Merchants [2001] IRLR 727 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Duty of trust and confidence: Demotion did not breach implied term of trust and confidence

    Date:

    15 September 2001

    The EAT holds in Hilton v Shiner Ltd that an employment tribunal had erred in holding, without giving reasons, that there was no fundamental change in an employee's contract in circumstances where the employee had been demoted from a position which included serving customers and the handling of money to one in which he was not allowed to do either.

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  Hinton v University of East London [2005] IRLR 552 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Compromise agreements: Agreements must set out specific claims to be compromised

    Date:

    24 June 2005

    In Hinton v University of East London, the Court of Appeal holds that the EAT had erred in law in striking out a claim brought under s.47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the right not to be subjected to a detriment for making a protected disclosure) on the basis that it was precluded by a general clause in an agreement which purported to compromise all claims arising under statute, common law or otherwise.