Cases within H

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  Homewood v Ministry of Defence [1994] IT/1443/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Record £300,000 sex bias award

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    In Homewood v Ministry of Defence a Glasgow industrial tribunal (Chair: H J Murphy) has awarded £299,851 to a former army major who was forced to resign when she became pregnant.

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  Hooper v British Railways Board [1988] IRLR 517 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Hooper v British Railways Board

    Date:

    1 December 1988

    In Hooper v British Railways Board [1988] IRLR 517 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the terms of a negotiated agreement, which provided that a member of staff who was declared fit by his own doctor but did not meet the medical standards required by the Board's doctor "shall be paid the basic rate of pay appropriate to his grade until such time as he resumes work either in his own post or on other suitable work", meant that the employee had a contractual right to be kept on full pay until such time as he was redeployed or reached retirement age.

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  Horkulak v Cantor Fitzgerald International [2004] IRLR 942 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Horkulak v Cantor Fitzgerald International

    Date:

    1 December 2004

    In Horkulak v Cantor Fitzgerald International [2004] IRLR 942 CA, the Court of Appeal held that, even where the employment contract states that payment of a bonus is discretionary, the employer is under an implied duty to exercise that discretion genuinely and rationally, and a wrongfully dismissed employee could recover damages that reflect the bonus payments that he could have expected to receive had he remained in employment.

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  Hörnfeldt v Posten Meddelande AB [2012] IRLR 785 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Age discrimination: ECJ rules Swedish default retirement age of 67 to be lawful

    Date:

    10 July 2012

    The European Court of Justice has upheld the Swedish law that allows an employer to terminate an employee's contract of employment on the sole ground that he or she has reached the age of 67, taking no account of the pension that the employee will receive. 

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  Horton v Taplin Contracts Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 1604 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Horton v Taplin Contracts Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 2002

    In Horton v Taplin Contracts Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 1604 CA, the Court of Appeal held that it is clear from the wording of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992, regulation 5 that when an employer supplies work equipment it must be suitable in any respect that it is reasonably foreseeable will affect the health or safety of any person. In this case the unlawful actions of the claimant's work colleague were not foreseeable.

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  Hospital Medical Group Ltd v Westwood [2012] IRLR 834 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Court of Appeal rejects argument that self-employed contractors cannot be "workers"

    Date:

    3 August 2012

    The Court of Appeal has held that a self-employed GP who provided hair restoration services for a private clinic was a "worker" for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996. 

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  Hounga v Allen and another [2012] IRLR 685 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  In Hounga v Allen and another [2014] IRLR 811 SC, the Supreme Court held that the claimant's case for race discrimination could proceed.

  • Au pair's discrimination claims barred for being inextricably linked with her own illegal conduct

    Date:

    24 May 2012

    The Court of Appeal has held that an employee who worked in the UK knowing that she did not have permission to do so was unable to claim discrimination against her unlawful employers, given that her illegal actions formed a material part of her discrimination claims. 

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  Howard v Millrise Ltd t/a Colourflow (in liquidation) and another [2005] IRLR 84 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Duty to invite elections

    Date:

    14 January 2005

    In Howard v (1) Millrise Ltd and another, the EAT holds that the correct interpretation of reg.10 (8A) of TUPE is that, if there is no trade union and no elected employee representatives, the employer is under a duty to inform and consult employees affected by the transfer of the undertaking.

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  Howard v Ministry of Defence [1994] IT/30051/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Claim for widower's pension blocked

    Date:

    1 March 1995

    The exception to the temporal limitation in the Barber decision in respect of workers who have already brought legal proceedings "or made an equivalent claim" only applies where the claim had been made to an independent third party with power to make a determination, holds a Bristol industrial tribunal (Chair: C G Toomer) in Howard v Ministry of Defence.

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  Howman & Son v Blyth [1983] IRLR 139 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sick pay: Duration of sick pay

    Date:

    5 April 1983

    Where a contract of employment does not specify a limit to the duration of sick pay, it does not continue indefinitely but only for a reasonable period, holds the EAT, in Howman & Son v Blyth. However in deciding what is a reasonable period, Tribunals should consider the limit specified in a national agreement in the relevant industry.