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  James W Cook & Co (Wivenhoe) Ltd (in liquidation) v Tipper and others [1990] IRLR 386 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: Unfair redundancy dismissals - time limits and compensation

    Date:

    5 October 1990

    An industrial tribunal was entitled to exercise its discretion to extend the time limit for unfair dismissal applications from redundant employees, who mistakenly believed that work would "pick up"; and they would be re-employed, until two weeks after the employer's business closed down.

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  Jämställdhetsombudsmannen v Örebro Läns Landsting [2000] IRLR 421 ECJ (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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  JE Broome v Director of Public Prosecutions [1974] IRLR 26 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • JE Broome v Director of Public Prosecutions

    Date:

    1 January 1974

    In JE Broome v Director of Public Prosecutions [1974] IRLR 26 HL, the House of Lords held that the appellant had no authority or excuse under the Industrial Relations Act, section 134 for willfully obstructing free passage along the highway contrary to the Highways Act, section 121.

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  Jeffery & others v (1) Secretary of State for Education (2) Bridgend College EAT/0677/05 (1 report 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.

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  Jenkins v Burney and others [1994] IT/4979/91 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Complaints of racist abuse ignored

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    A black college lecturer whose complaints of racial abuse over an eight-year period were continually disbelieved by college authorities was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of race, rules an Ashford industrial tribunal (Chair: I S Lamb) in Jenkins v Burney and others.

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  Jeremiah v Ministry of Defence [1979] IRLR 436 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Jeremiah v Ministry of Defence

    Date:

    1 November 1979

    In Jeremiah v Ministry of Defence [1979] IRLR 436 CA, the Court of Appeal held that "subjecting to detriment" in the context of discrimination by employers, does not mean anything more than "putting under a disadvantage".

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  Jewess v JSB Electrical plc [1993] IT/01761/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissed because of personal relationships

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    In Jewess v JSB Electrical plc, a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: E T Connolly) rules that a woman who was dismissed because her relationship with a former male employee who had left to work for a competitor was still continuing and her employer believed that information about the business would be passed to the competitor was not unlawful discrimination.

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  JH Walker Ltd v Hussain and others [1996] IRLR 11 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: "Intentional" indirect discrimination by employer

    Date:

    1 April 1996

    In JH Walker Ltd v Hussain and others the EAT holds that an employer "intentionally" indirectly discriminated against its Asian employees on the ground of race when, in accordance with a new policy that no holiday could be taken by employees during the three busiest months of the year, it required them to work on an important Muslim festival day, and disciplined them when they took the day off.

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  Jiminez v Southwark London Borough Council [2003] All ER (D) 123 (Apr) CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 2

    Date:

    16 April 2004

    The second of our two-part feature on noteworthy decisions in practice and procedure at the employment tribunals and EAT looks at bias, the right to a fair hearing and a range of other issues.

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  Johal v Equality and Human Rights Commission EAT/0541/09 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Failure to notify employee on maternity leave of job vacancy was not sex discrimination

    Date:

    24 November 2010

    In Johal v Equality and Human Rights Commission EAT/0541/09, the EAT held that the employer's failure to inform an employee on maternity leave of a job vacancy was not an act of sex discrimination.

  • No sex discrimination when administrative error meant woman on maternity leave not informed of internal vacancy

    Date:

    9 August 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, on the facts of the case, an employer did not commit sex discrimination against an employee on maternity leave when an administrative error meant that she was not informed of a job vacancy.